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Strongyloidiasis in a healthy 8-year-old girl in north-eastern USA
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Strongyloidiasis in a healthy 8-year-old girl in north-eastern USA

Panagiotis Kratimenos, Ioannis Koutroulis, Deepa Vasireddy, Richard Degroote and Margaret C. Fisher
Paediatrics and international child health, v 35(1), pp 72-74
01 Feb 2015
PMID: 25022873

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Life Sciences & Biomedicine Pediatrics Science & Technology
A previously healthy, white 8-year-old girl presented with a 1-week history of abdominal pain and vomiting after a trip to a lake in Pennsylvania, north-eastern USA. There was marked dehydration. A raised blood eosinophilic count prompted microscopy for ova and parasites which demonstrated a heavy load of larvae of Strongyloides stercoralis. Charcot-Leyden crystals were also detected. The child received oral ivermectin and made a complete recovery.

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