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Strongyloides stercoralis infection: A systematic review of endemic cases in Spain.
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- Strongyloidiasis Beyond the Tropics: Updated Epidemiological Evidence from a Historically Endemic Region in Spain.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
- Symptomatic Chronic Strongyloides Stercoralis Infection after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in an Immunocompetent Patient.European journal of case reports in internal medicine · 2026Article
- Donor Screening Failure for Strongyloides stercoralis in Solid Organ Transplantation.Emerging infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Molecular taxonomic study ofFrontiers in parasitology · 2026Article
- Evaluation of strongyloidiasis prevalence in immunocompromised patients referred to hospitals: a case study of Iran's capital.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- The Seroepidemiology ofJournal of tropical medicine · 2024Article
- Human strongyloidiasis: complexities and pathways forward.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2023Review
- Answer to the Photo Quiz: Unexpected finding in a Gram stain.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2023Article
- Seroprevalence ofTropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
- Chronic Strongyloides stercoralis infection increases presence of the Ruminococcus torques group in the gut and alters the microbial proteome.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Evaluation of the Immunomodulatory Effect of the Recombinant 14-3-3 and Major Antigen Proteins ofVaccines · 2022Article
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- Effectiveness and Safety of a Single-Dose Ivermectin Treatment for Uncomplicated Strongyloidiasis in Immunosuppressed Patients (ImmunoStrong Study): The Study Protocol.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Eosinophilic appendicitis due toBMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Is there autochthonous strongyloidiasis in Spanish children?European journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- Seropositivity and geographical distribution of Strongyloides stercoralis in Australia: A study of pathology laboratory data from 2012-2016.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
- Performance evaluation of Baermann techniques: The quest for developing a microscopy reference standard for the diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundStrongyloides stercoralis infection, a neglected tropical disease, is widely distributed. Autochthonous cases have been described in Spain, probably infected long time ago. In recent years the number of diagnosed cases has increased due to the growing number of immigrants, travelers and refugees, but endemically acquired cases in Spain remains undetermined. METHODOLOGY: We systematically searched the literature for references on endemic strongyloidiasis cases in Spain. The articles were required to describe Strongyloides stercoralis infection in at least one Spanish-born person without a history of travel to endemic areas and be published before 31st May 2018. Epidemiological data from patients was collected and described individually as well as risk factors to acquisition of the infection, diagnostic technique that lead to the diagnosis, presence of eosinophilia and clinical symptoms at diagnosis.
findingsThirty-six studies were included, describing a total of 1083 patients with an average age of 68.3 years diagnosed with endemic strongyloidiasis in Spain. The vast majority of the cases were described in the province of Valencia (n = 1049). Two hundred and eight of the 251 (82.9%) patients in whom gender was reported were male, and most of them had current or past dedication to agriculture. Seventy percent had some kind of comorbidity. A decreasing trend in the diagnosed cases per year is observed from the end of last decade. However, there are still nefigw diagnoses of autochthonous cases of strongyloidiasis in Spain every year.
conclusionsWith the data provided by this review it is likely that in Spain strongyloidiasis might have been underestimated. It is highly probable that the infection remains undiagnosed in many cases due to low clinical suspicion among Spanish population without recent travel history in which the contagion probably took place decades ago.
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