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Ex Vivo Infection of Human Lymphoid Tissue and Female Genital Mucosa with Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 and Histoculture
Published on: October 12, 2018
[Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome]
G Sauca Subías1, P Barrufet Barque, A Besa Beringues
1Laboratorio de Microbiología, Hospital de Mataró, Mataró, Barcelona.
Abstract:
Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection is a rare but know complication in patients with intestinal parasitism. Immunosuppressive therapy and acquires immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are major risk factors for dissemination. Diagnosis requires identification of larvae in body fluids or biopsy and the mortality rates can be as high as 80%. The enteric bacteria are carried by invasive larvae and this can result in septicemia, pneumonia, meningitis, and disseminated bacterial infection in many parts of the body. We present a case of Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection complicated by Escherichia coli bacteraemia in a 45-year-old man African with AIDS.
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