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. 2014 Nov;91(5):1000-1.
doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-0310. Epub 2014 Aug 25.

Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis antibodies among a rural Appalachian population--Kentucky, 2013

Elizabeth S Russell  1 , Elizabeth B Gray  2 , Rebekah E Marshall  1 , Stephanie Davis  1 , Amanda Beaudoin  1 , Sukwan Handali  1 , Isabel McAuliffe  1 , Cheryl Davis  1 , Dana Woodhall  1
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Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis antibodies among a rural Appalachian population--Kentucky, 2013

Elizabeth S Russell et al. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014 Nov.

Abstract

We investigated whether Strongyloides infection remains endemic in rural Kentucky's Appalachian regions; 7 of 378 (1.9%) participants tested positive for Strongyloides antibodies. We identified no statistically significant association between a positive test and travel to a known endemic country (P = 0.58), indicating that transmission in rural Kentucky might be ongoing.

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