title: Strongyloides-infected patients at Charleston area medical center, West Virginia, 1997-1998.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston, WV, USA. kitchenc@mindspring.com
authors.forename: L W
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Kitchen
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: F T
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Kerns
mesh_terms: 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