title: Strongyloidiasis on the Thai-Cambodian border.
abstract: A series of children's deaths at a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand prompted an investigation of children suffering from bloody diarrhoea and severe abdominal pain. Microscopical stool and blood examinations of 15 cases aged 1-7 years revealed hyperinfective strongyloidiasis as the cause of illness. Nine of 14 cases were infected wtih Strongyloides stercoralis, and 6 (42%) had concurrent infection with hookworm. Examination of 958 outpatients at the camp's daily clinic showed that mixed infections of S. stercoralis and hookworm were present in only 4.8% of the outpatients of the same age group.
authors.affiliation: County of Riverside Department of Health, California.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Boyajian
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000469:parasitology*; D000818:Animals; D002160:Cambodia; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003967:Diarrhea / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000469:parasitology*; D006725:Hookworm Infections / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D017171:Strongyloides stercoralis; D013322:Strongyloidiasis / Q000150:complications*; D013785:Thailand