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Case Reports
. 1985 Feb;131(1):47-9.
doi: 10.1136/jramc-131-01-11.

Fatal disseminated strongyloidiasis in an immunocompromised former war prisoner of the Japanese

J B Stewart, B J Heap
Case Reports

Fatal disseminated strongyloidiasis in an immunocompromised former war prisoner of the Japanese

J B Stewart et al. J R Army Med Corps. 1985 Feb.

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.

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