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Strongyloides-infected patients at Charleston area medical center, West Virginia, 1997-1998
L W Kitchen1, K K Tu, F T Kerns
1Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston, WV, USA. kitchenc@mindspring.com
Abstract:
Twenty Strongyloides-infected patients were diagnosed at West Virginia's Charleston Area Medical Center in 1997 and 1998. We recommend that strongyloidiasis, which can be fatal, be a reportable disease in West Virginia.