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(medicine, pathology) infection by roundworms of the superfamily Strongyloidea.
2012, Cary Engleberg, Chapter 54: Intestinal Heminths, N. Cary Engleberg, Victor DiRita, Terence S. Dermody, Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, 5th Edition, page 537, As a result, strongyloidiasis can produce acute clinical syndromes (such as peritonitis) or mimic chronic abdominal problems such as peptic ulcer or gallbladder disease.
In the AIDS era, the severe infestation of S. stercoralis, hyperinfection or disseminated strongyloidiasis, becomes an important superimposed infection [38].
The global prevalence of strongyloidiasis is unclear and varies between 30 million and 100 million people infected [3].
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Strongyloidiasis means (medicine, pathology) infection by roundworms of the superfamily Strongyloidea.
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2012, Cary Engleberg, Chapter 54: Intestinal Heminths, N. Cary Engleberg, Victor DiRita, Terence S. Dermody, Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, 5th Edition, page 537, As a result, strongyloidiasis can produce acute clinical syndromes (such as peritonitis) or mimic chronic abdominal problems such as peptic ulcer or gallbladder disease.
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