Strongyloidiasis

Clinic

• It is a human parasitic disease caused by the nematode called Strongyloides stercoralis, or sometimes the closely related S. fülleborni.
• Symptoms are principally skin symptoms, abdominal pain, diarrhea and weight loss, but also many other specific and vague symptoms in disseminated disease, and severe life-threatening conditions through hyperinfection

Five types

1. Löffler's syndrome: As the infection continues and the larvae matures, there may be respiratory symptoms
2. It may then become chronic with mainly digestive symptoms including abdominal pain and diarrhea and/or conversely constipation.
3. When larvae migrate from the skin to the lungs and finally to the small intestine, there may be respiratory, skin and digestive symptoms.
4. Dermatologic manifestations include Urticarial rashes in the buttocks and waist areas as well as larva currens. Eosinophilia is generally present.
5. Finally, the hyperinfection syndrome causes symptoms in many organ systems, including CNS

Disseminated disease

• Abdominal pain, distension, malabsorption, malnutrition,
• Shock, sepsis, Hemorrhage
• Meningitis

• HIV
• Lepromatous leprosy
• Tertiary syphilis
• Aplastic anemia
• Advanced tuberculosis

Miasm

HTLV-1