Background Preventive chemotherapy represents a powerful but short-term control strategy
for soil-transmitted helminthiasis. Since humans are often re-infected rapidly, long-term …

Background The soil-transmitted threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, is one of the most
neglected among the so-called neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). We reviewed studies of …

Background Strongyloidiasis is a gut infection with Strongyloides stercoralis which is
common world wide. Chronic infection usually causes a skin rash, vomiting, diarrhoea or …

Background Strongyloidiasis is frequently under diagnosed since many infections remain
asymptomatic and conventional diagnostic tests based on parasitological examination are …

The neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) represent some of the most common infections of
the poorest people living in the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC). Because they …

Background Strongyloides stercoralis, an intestinal parasitic nematode, infects more than
100 million people worldwide. Strongyloides are unique in their ability to exist as a free …

Soil-transmitted helminths of the genus Strongyloides (S. fuelleborni and the more prevalent
S. stercoralis) are currently believed to infect an estimated 30–100 million people worldwide …

Strongyloides stercoralis differs from the other soil-transmitted helminths because it puts
infected subjects at risk of a fatal syndrome (in cases of immunosuppression for medical …

Strongyloides stercoralis is an intestinal helminth that infects humans through contact with
soil containing the larvae. Between 30 and 100 million people are infected worldwide. 1 In …

Strongyloidiasis remains an underestimated public health problem, just as it was at the
dawn of last century. In 1901, Professor William Sydney Thayer published a review,''On the …