title: Fatal disseminated strongyloidiasis in an immunocompromised former war prisoner of the Japanese.
abstract: An ex-Far East prisoner of war (FEPOW) treated with corticosteroids for severe polymyositis died from multisystem strongyloidiasis and pyogenic meningitis. At necropsy larvae were widely disseminated in the lungs, liver, heart and brain.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Heap
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008887:Military Medicine; D002052:Myanmar; D009220:Myositis / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011329:Prisoners; D013322:Strongyloidiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000276:immunology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014857:Warfare
chemical_list: D011239:Prednisolone