STRONGYLOIDES-STERCORALIS INFECTION IN A NONIMMUNOSUPPRESSED TOURIST WITH INVOLVEMENT OF THE CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM

Authors
LAHN MMF STAUBSCHMIDT T HIMY R VILLARD O MOLET B KREMER M CHRISTMANN DJL
Citation
Mmf. Lahn et al., STRONGYLOIDES-STERCORALIS INFECTION IN A NONIMMUNOSUPPRESSED TOURIST WITH INVOLVEMENT OF THE CENTRAL-NERVOUS-SYSTEM, Tropical and geographical medicine, 46(6), 1994, pp. 368-370
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine","Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Tropical and geographical medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00413232
Volume
46
Issue
6
Year of publication
1994
Pages
368 - 370
Database
ISI
SICI code
0041-3232(1994)46:6<368:SIIANT>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
In the present case report a 50 year-old woman is presented with a Str ongyloides stercoralis infection after a one-month stay in Sri Lanka. She showed a severe involvement of the central nervous system without a correlation of an immunosuppression. Strongyloides stercoralis is re garded as the cause of the cerebral involvement. Other possible causes are also discussed.