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Disseminated strongyloidiasis with cutaneous manifestations in an immunocompromised host
S M Gordon1, A A Gal, A R Solomon
1Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Recognition of the characteristic cutaneous eruption of disseminated strongyloidiasis can be crucial for early diagnosis and treatment of this potentially fatal infestation. We describe a corticosteroid-dependent elderly man who had a purpuric eruption. Filariform larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis were found in dermal granulomas and also in the sputum.