strongyloidiasis
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- Rhymes: -aɪəsɪs
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strongyloidiasis (countable and uncountable, plural strongyloidiases)
- (medicine, pathology) infection by roundworms of the superfamily Strongyloidea
- 2006, Viroj Wiwanitkit, Tropical Anemia, page 53:
- In the AIDS era, the severe infestation of S. stercoralis, hyperinfection or disseminated strongyloidiasis, becomes an important superimposed infection [38].
- 2011, Jean-François Timsit, Jean-Paul Brion, Hervé Pelloux, “Parasitic Lung Infections”, in Elie Azoulay, editor, Pulmonary Involvement in Patients with Hematological Malignancies, page 361:
- The global prevalence of strongyloidiasis is unclear and varies between 30 million and 100 million people infected [3].
- 2012, Cary Engleberg, Chapter 54: Intestinal Heminths, N. Cary Engleberg, Victor DiRita, Terence S. Dermody, Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, 5th Edition, page 537,
- As a result, strongyloidiasis can produce acute clinical syndromes (such as peritonitis) or mimic chronic abdominal problems such as peptic ulcer or gallbladder disease.