intestinal strongyloidiasis and hyperinfection syndrome肠道类圆线虫病和高度传染综合症.pdfVIP

Clinical and Molecular Allergy BioMed Central Review Open Access Intestinal strongyloidiasis and hyperinfection syndrome 1 1 1,2 Raja S Vadlamudi* , David S Chi and Guha Krishnaswamy Address: 1Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, VA Building 1, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA and 2Division of Allergy and Immunology, James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA Email: Raja S Vadlamudi* - drrsv1@; David S Chi - chi@; Guha Krishnaswamy - krishnas@ * Corresponding author Published: 30 May 2006 Received: 02 February 2006 Accepted: 30 May 2006 Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2006, 4:8 doi:10.1186/1476-7961-4-8 This article is available from: /content/4/1/8 © 2006 Vadlamudi et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract In spite of recent advances with experiments on animal models, strongyloidiasis, an infection caused by the nematode parasite Strongyloides stercoralis, has still been an elusive disease. Though endemic in some developing countries, strongyloidiasis still poses a threat to the developed world. Due to the peculiar but characteristic features of autoinfection