Strongyloides-infected patients at Charleston area medical center, West Virginia, 1997-1998.
Twenty Strongyloides-infected patients were diagnosed at West Virginia's Charleston Area Medical Center in 1997 and 1998. We recommend that strongyloidiasis, which can be fatal, be a reportable disease in West Virginia.
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D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013183:Sputum / Q000469:parasitology; D013321:Strongyloides / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D017171:Strongyloides stercoralis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013322:Strongyloidiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000469:parasitology; D014903:West Virginia