Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient

Strongyloids stercoralis is a unique parasite as it has the capability of completing its life cycle entirely within the human host. The immune system of the host plays an important role in keeping the infection under control but when there is a breach in this system the infection may flare up and le...

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Autores principales: Mohammed, Sadik, Bhatia, Pradeep, Chhabra, Swati, Gupta, Sunit Kumar, Kumar, Rakesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6842837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31749558
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23267
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author Mohammed, Sadik
Bhatia, Pradeep
Chhabra, Swati
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Kumar, Rakesh
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description Strongyloids stercoralis is a unique parasite as it has the capability of completing its life cycle entirely within the human host. The immune system of the host plays an important role in keeping the infection under control but when there is a breach in this system the infection may flare up and leads to hyperinfection. In immunocompetent patients, gastrointestinal manipulation could be an inciting trigger leading to translocation of larva into the systemic circulation and development of hyperinfection syndrome. We report a case where infection with S. stercoralis lead to hyperinfection in patient with intact immune system following laparotomy. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Mohammed S, Bhatia P, Chhabra S, Gupta SK, Kumar R. Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient. Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(10):481–483.
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spelling pubmed-68428372019-11-20 Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient Mohammed, Sadik Bhatia, Pradeep Chhabra, Swati Gupta, Sunit Kumar Kumar, Rakesh Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Strongyloids stercoralis is a unique parasite as it has the capability of completing its life cycle entirely within the human host. The immune system of the host plays an important role in keeping the infection under control but when there is a breach in this system the infection may flare up and leads to hyperinfection. In immunocompetent patients, gastrointestinal manipulation could be an inciting trigger leading to translocation of larva into the systemic circulation and development of hyperinfection syndrome. We report a case where infection with S. stercoralis lead to hyperinfection in patient with intact immune system following laparotomy. HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE: Mohammed S, Bhatia P, Chhabra S, Gupta SK, Kumar R. Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient. Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(10):481–483. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2019-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6842837/ /pubmed/31749558 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23267 Text en Copyright © 2019; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Kumar, Rakesh
Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient
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title_full Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_fullStr Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_short Pulmonary Hyperinfection with Strongyloides stercoralis in an Immunocompetent Patient
title_sort pulmonary hyperinfection with strongyloides stercoralis in an immunocompetent patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6842837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31749558
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23267
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