Strongyloides stercoralis infects 30 million people in 70 countries. Infection usually results in
asymptomatic chronic disease of the gut, which can remain undetected for decades …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of human strongyloidiasis.
Strongyloides stercoralis differs from other worms that infect humans. There are both free …

Strongyloidiasis (caused by Strongyloides stercoralis, and to a lesser extent by
Strongyloides fuelleborni) is one of the most neglected tropical diseases with endemic areas …

Strongyloidiasis is the infection caused by soil-transmitted nematodes of Strongyloides
species, infecting humans and some animals. Strongyloides stercoralis is the species with …

Follow-up stool examinations were carried out on two groups of the subjects who were
screened negative (group 1) or positive (group 2) for Strongyloides stercoralis by the agar …

Human strongyloidiasis is an intestinal parasitosis that may affect 100 million individuals.
However, the prevalence rates of this infection may represent smaller values than the actual …

The availability of high-quality data of helminth genomes provided over the past two
decades has supported and accelerated large-scale 'omics studies and, consequently, the …

A stool and serosurvey for Strongyloides stercoralis was conducted in a community in the
Peruvian Amazon region. Strongyloidiasis stercoralis was identified in the stool of 69 (8.7%) …

The efficacy of agar-plate culture has been evaluated for the detection of Strongyloides
stercoralis and hookworm, compared with direct smear, the formalin-ether sedimentation …

The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of association between positive
Strongyloides stercoralis serology and diabetes mellitus. A total of 78 diabetic patients and …