Strongyloides stercoralis infection in a non-immunosuppressed tourist with involvement of the central nervous system.
In the present case report a 50-year-old woman is presented with a Strongyloides stercoralis infection after a one-month stay in Sri Lanka. She showed a severe involvement of the central nervous system without a correlation of an immunosuppression. Strongyloides stercoralis is regarded as the cause of the cerebral involvement. Other possible causes are also discussed.
Lahn
M M
MM
Unité des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hopital Civil, Hopitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, France.
Staub-Schmidt
T
T
Himy
R
R
Villard
O
O
Molet
B
B
Kremer
M
M
Christmann
D J
DJ
D000818:Animals; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D017171:Strongyloides stercoralis; D013322:Strongyloidiasis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed