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1/18. Eosinophilic meningitis. An unusual cause of headache.

    Human parasitic infections are uncommon outside the tropical north but common in animals throughout australia. The rat lung worm, angiostrongylus cantonensis, can invade the human brain to cause a chronic meningitis with prolonged headache. This condition can be diagnosed by finding a high eosinophil count in cerebrospinal fluid (CFS), the lumbar puncture also provides symptomatic relief. The outcome is usually benign but death has been reported.
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2/18. strongyloides stercoralis infection: how to diagnose best?

    Four patients are described with a strongyloides stercoralis infection. Several techniques to diagnose this infection are discussed. The so-called Baermann method is emphasised. Especially in chronic infections the combination of serology and the Baermann method seems the best diagnostic approach. Treatment with albendazole or ivermectin are suggested treatments.
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3/18. Screening for Strongyloides infection among the institutionalized mentally disabled.

    BACKGROUND: strongyloidiasis is an intestinal helminthic infection common among the mentally disabled population and can cause persistent occult infection before resulting in disseminated, possibly fatal disease. methods: Two cases of strongyloidiasis are described. The literature was searched using the key words "Strongyloides" and "mass screening." RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: strongyloidiasis is clinically important and well documented in the mentally disabled populations both in endemic and nonendemic regions of north america. It has a substantial latent phase during which screening can be conducted, and its treatment with thiabendazole is convenient, effective, and reasonably well tolerated. Although strongyloidiasis is usually incidentally detected by findings of eosinophilia during routine blood screening, peripheral eosinophilia occurs only in 50% to 80% of infected persons and is extremely nonspecific for Strongyloides infection. Given the high cost of critical care for a patient with disseminated disease, screening mentally disabled populations in institutional settings for strongyloidiasis by administering the strongyloides stercoralis antibody ELISA appears justifiable, particularly if risk factors for hyperinfection syndrome are used to select a subpopulation to be screened.
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4/18. Third report of ocular parastrongyliasis (angiostrongyliasis) from sri lanka.

    A further case of ocular parastrongyliasis has been seen in a patient from sri lanka. As it is a juvenile female worm it could not be identified to the species, but it is probably Parastrongylus (= Angiostrongylus) cantonensis which is the commonly reported species in the country. This is the third authentic case of such an infection in sri lanka in recent years.
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5/18. angiostrongylus cantonensis infection mimicking a spinal cord tumor.

    angiostrongylus cantonensis is the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis and meningoencephalitis. Almost all cases are self-limiting and are diagnosed by cerebrospinal fluid eosinophilia and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; pathology reports are restricted to postmortem samples from lethal cases. We report on what we believe is the first case of A. cantonensis infection diagnosed by biopsy in a living patient. The spinal cord was biopsied because of the unusual clinical presentation of a myelopathy without meningeal symptoms, together with a mass lesion that was clinically and radiologically diagnosed as a spinal cord tumor.
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6/18. Chronic cough and haemoptysis due to a nematode, "Syngamus laryngeus".

    A case of bronchial infection with Syngamus laryngeus (Gapeworm) in a 42-year-old woman is described. Following presentation with chronic cough, haemoptysis and weight loss, a pair of worms was removed at bronchoscopy, with resolution of symptoms.
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7/18. Eosinophilic meningitis due to angiostrongylus cantonensis in switzerland.

    Eosinophilic meningitis is a well-known disease in areas where the rat lung worm angiostrongylus cantonensis is endemic, i.e. in Southeast asia and in the Caribbean. We report a case of eosinophilic meningitis due to infection with angiostrongylus cantonensis in a traveler returning from cuba. The diagnosis was based upon symptoms of chronic meningitis associated with hyperesthesia and presence of eosinophilia in the cerebrospinal fluid. With increasing mobility rare infections like eosinophilic meningitis due to A. cantonensis may be encountered in the western hemisphere. A Giemsa stain of the cerebrospinal fluid is crucial for a prompt diagnosis that is confirmed by detection of specific antibodies.
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8/18. Fatal autochthonous eosinophilic meningitis in a Jamaican child caused by angiostrongylus cantonensis.

    A fatal case of infection with angiostrongylus cantonensis is reported in a 14-month-old Jamaican boy. Although infection with Angiostrongylus was not considered initially, sections of multiple worms were observed in the brain and lungs at autopsy and confirmed the infection. This is the first reported fatality due to this infection in the Western Hemisphere, and follows shortly after an outbreak of eosinophilic meningitis among a group of travelers to jamaica. The source of infection in this case could not be determined.
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9/18. Ocular parastrongyliasis (=angiostrongyliasis): probable first report of human infection from a patient in Ceylon (sri lanka).

    What is considered to be the first case of human parastrongyliasis (angiostrongyliasis) worldwide is described from a patient in Ceylon (sri lanka) in 1925. It also predates the description of the parasite in humans by Chen (1935).
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10/18. Ocular angiostrongyliasis in a child--first case report from india.

    A rare case report of angiostrongylus cantonensis (rat lung worm) from the eye is presented here. This worm generally causes eosinophilic meningo-encephalitis and accidentally infects humans by ingestion of uncooked snails, slugs, frogs etc. The child was presented to us with diminished vision in left eye. Slit lamp examination showed an actively motile worm in the anterior chamber. Surgical extraction of the worm was performed and it was identified as A. cantonensis. This is the first case of ocular A. cantonensis infection from india with no signs or symptoms of meningitis. After surgery, the visual acuity of the patient returned to normal.
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