Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis and bronchial asthma: A case report

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Altintop, Levent ^a   Cakar, Burcu ^a   Hokelek, Murat ^a   Bektas, Ahmet ^a   Yildiz, Levent ^a   Karaoglanoglu, Muge ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DEFLAZACORT; IVERMECTIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; PREGNANE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GASTRITIS; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DUODENUM; DYSPEPSIA; EOSINOPHIL; EPIGASTRIC DISCOMFORT; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPONATREMIA; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINE CRYPT; LARVA; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; NAUSEA; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHALANX; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; STOMACH BIOPSY; STOMACH GLAND; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VOMITING; WEAKNESS; ANIMAL; DRUG COMBINATION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PARASITOLOGY; SOIL;

AGED; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; ASTHMA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; IVERMECTIN; METHOTREXATE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PREGNENEDIONES; SOIL; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

EID: 77956633084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-9-27     Document Type: Article

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