Strongyloides Stercoralis Case Study

ITRODUCTION:

Strongyloides stercoralis is a human pathogenic intestinal parasite roundworm disease with free living and autoinfective cycles. The Infection is acquired through direct penetration of human skin by infective larvae when in contact with contamination soil and recreational activities. Strongyloides is often asymptomatic in a healthy host with mild gastrointestinal symptoms. But if the host becomes immunocompromised may involving more than one organs and increase the intestinal worm encumbrance and lead to strongyloidiasis, if untreated, become significantly ill and probably die.

Case Report

A 50-year-old male initially from Southeast Asia was experiencing chemotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the lung. He was conceded one week earlier with sickness, retching, and perplexity.

stercoralis ia an intestinal parasitic nematodes. This parasite has complex life cycle that involves two phases of parasitic and live free. Adult worms can survive and reproduce, whether in the human small intestine and in the soil, leading to a variety of possible routes of infection. Through direct development and adult slot eggs in the intestine and the larvae turn into rhabditiform, and that was passed in the stool. Under favorable conditions mature larvae in the soil to filariform which is able to penetrate the skin of humans. The rhabditiform develop into adult worms live free in the soil independently of human beings and this is known as indirect development. Once infective larvae had penetrated the skin, they travel to the lungs through the blood circulation, where they migrate to the airways, and access to the esophagus, and are swallowed back down into the intestines, where mating occurs, the full.Strongyloides published often develops in patients who suffer from immune weakness resulting from lack of nutrition, chemotherapy, and autoimmune diseases etc, strongyloidiasis cause severe medical condition, and the initial symptoms are very mild and