Prompt diagnosis and treatment of strongyloidiasis in a renal transplant patient

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 72-73

  Briasoulis, Alexandros ^a   Psevdos, George ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; LETTER; MIGRATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78650865108     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181f61647     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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3. Palau LA, Pankey GA. Strongyloides hyper-infection in a renal transplant recipient receiving cyclosporine: possible Strongyloides ster-coralis transmission by kidney transplant. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1997;57:413-415.