Weight loss in a man from West Africa. S. stercoralis hyperinfection

Gut. 2015 Dec;64(12):1846, 1888. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2015-309308. Epub 2015 Mar 27.

Authors

Rabia Topan¹, Sophie James¹, Benjamin H Mullish¹, Sagen Zac-Varghese², Robert D Goldin³, Robert Thomas⁴, Jeremy Cox², Jonathan M Hoare¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
² Department of Endocrinology, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
³ Department of Histopathology, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
⁴ Department of Radiology, St Mary's Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.

PMID: 25820264
DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2015-309308

No abstract available

Keywords: ENTEROSCOPY; MALABSORPTION; PARASITIC DISEASES.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Animals
Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal
Fatal Outcome
Humans
Sierra Leone / ethnology
Strongyloides stercoralis*
Strongyloidiasis / complications
Strongyloidiasis / diagnosis*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
United Kingdom
Weight Loss*