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Sharifdini M, Kia EB, Ashrafi K, et al. An Analysis of Clinical Characteristics of Strongyloides stercoralis in 70 indigenous patients in Iran. Iran J Parasitol. 2014;9(2):155-62
Sharifdini, M., Kia, E. B., Ashrafi, K., Hosseini, M., Mirhendi, H., Mohebali, M., & Kamranrashani, B. (2014). An Analysis of Clinical Characteristics of Strongyloides stercoralis in 70 indigenous patients in Iran. Iranian journal of parasitology, 9(2), 155-62.
Sharifdini, Meysam, et al. "An Analysis of Clinical Characteristics of Strongyloides stercoralis in 70 indigenous patients in Iran." Iranian journal of parasitology vol. 9,2 (2014): 155-62.
Sharifdini M, Kia EB, Ashrafi K, Hosseini M, Mirhendi H, Mohebali M, Kamranrashani B. An Analysis of Clinical Characteristics of Strongyloides stercoralis in 70 indigenous patients in Iran. Iran J Parasitol. 2014 Apr-Jun;9(2):155-62. PMID: 25848380; PMCID: PMC4386034.
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Iran J Parasitol. 2014 Apr-Jun;9(2):155-62.

An Analysis of Clinical Characteristics of Strongyloides stercoralis in 70 indigenous patients in Iran.

Iranian journal of parasitology

Meysam Sharifdini, Eshrat Beigom Kia, Keyhan Ashrafi, Mostafa Hosseini, Hossein Mirhendi, Mehdi Mohebali, Bahare Kamranrashani

Affiliations

  1. Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran ; Center for Research of Endemic Parasites of Iran (CREPI), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  2. Dept. of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Gilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
  3. Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  4. Department of Medical Parasitology and Mycology, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 25848380 PMCID: PMC4386034

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Clinical manifestations of Strongyloides stercoralis are variable from asymptomatic to hyperinfection and devastating disseminated infections. Hereby, clinical characteristics of a large series of Iranian strongyloidiasis indigenous cases are described.

METHODS: The records of people referred to the Helminthological Diagnostic Laboratory of School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences and School of Medicine, Gilan University of Medical Sciences, during 2009-2013 were reviewed. For those patients that were infected with S. stercoralis and their clinical manifestations and demographic data were available (70 cases) a checklist was prepared and data analyzed.

RESULTS: Forty-three patients (61.4%) were male and 27 (38.6%) female. Gastrointestinal, cutaneous and pulmonary symptoms were present in 71.4%, 25.7%, and 15.7% of patients, respectively. None of them had larva currens eruption. Eosinophilia was the most prevalent reason for suspicious on S. stercoralis, but the mean was lower in elderly patients. Hyperinfection were recorded in 8 patients (11.4%), and 2 cases had disseminated infection.

CONCLUSION: Eosinophilia is common both in asymptomatic and symptomatic cases of strongyloidiasis, but the mean tend to lower with increase in age.

Keywords: Clinical characteristics; Eosinophilia; Hyperinfection; Strongyloides stercoralis

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