Pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area

We report a case of Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection in an immunosuppressed individual occurring in a non-endemic area. Geographic risk is not sufficient to rule out Strongyloidiasis in susceptible individuals presenting with severe pulmonary disease.

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Autores principales: Agarwala, Ravi, Wasielewski, Joseph, Biman, Birubi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4399508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu032
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spelling pubmed-43995082015-05-18 Pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area Agarwala, Ravi Wasielewski, Joseph Biman, Birubi Oxf Med Case Reports Case Reports We report a case of Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection in an immunosuppressed individual occurring in a non-endemic area. Geographic risk is not sufficient to rule out Strongyloidiasis in susceptible individuals presenting with severe pulmonary disease. Oxford University Press 2014-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4399508/ /pubmed/25988037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu032 Text en © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Agarwala, Ravi
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Pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area
title Pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area
title_full Pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area
title_fullStr Pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area
title_short Pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area
title_sort pulmonary strongyloidiasis following renal transplantation without travel to an endemic area
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4399508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25988037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omu032
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