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Strongyloidiasis Clinical Findings
- Clinical manifestations are absent, mild or life threatening
- Sometimes acute infection produces characteristic skin followed by pulmonary and intestinal symptoms
Skin: erythaema, oedema, urticaria
Lung: cough
Intestine: abdominal pain, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting - In disseminated strongyloidiasis with massive autoinfection, larvae reach all tissues and provoke severe organ and systemic symptoms which are also due to dissemination of intestinal bacteria by the migrating larvae. In most cases this hyper-infection syndrome is fatal!
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