Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis infection among HIV-positive immigrants attending two Italian hospitals, from 2000 to 2009

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 105, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 617-623

  Mascarello, M ^a   Gobbi, F ^b   Angheben, A ^b   Gobbo, M ^b   Gaiera, G ^c   Pegoraro, M ^d   Lanzafame, M ^a   Buonfrate, D ^b   Concia, E ^a   Bisoffi, Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b S Cuore Hospital of Negrar   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMIGRANT; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ITALY; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NAUSEA; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; SKIN INFECTION; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; VIRUS LOAD; VOMITING;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84455188738     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: 13648594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2047773211Y.0000000006     Document Type: Article

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