Talk:Strongyloides stercoralis

message: Question......Can someone test positive for Strongyloides Stercoralis and actually have a different parasitic infection and NOT Strongyloides afterall?
:It is perfectly possible for someone to have strongyloides as well as another parasitic disease.  Is it possible for someone to not have strongloides and yet have a positive test?  It depends on the test: if the test in question was examination of a stool or sputum specimen, then I would say no.  If the test was serology (a blood test) then the answer is yes: you could have had strongyloides and then been treated for it: the blood test would remain positive for months if not years afterwards--Gak 10:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Testing

message: This article should be merged with strongyloidiasis--Gak 10:44, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Strongyloidiasis

message: Question: Can this parasite be detected thru a blood work up, such a special stain, as opposed to a work up on a stool, i.e. wet mount? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.226.72.28 (talk) 16:22, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the ELISA worm antibody test. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.106.9.113 (talk) 14:27, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Detection of parasite

message: This is a shor video from a sample of an infected patient May of 2008.You can se the movements of the parasite and incredible cuantity very clear.
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Melvincp (talk • contribs) 18:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video of Strongyloides stercoralis in microscope 

message: This article lacks a description of the worm.   One might expect, at the very least, to learn from an encyclopaedia how long an adult worm might be.   82.71.24.65 (talk) 10:00, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a brief description (including its length) in the "Morphology" section. Graham87 15:04, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing description of the worm 

message: Could Strongyloides fuelleborni cause a near-positive strongyloides serology? Is there any way to know which one it is? 93.106.9.113 (talk) 14:27, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Histology

message: Graham87 has deleted the following content from this page, see below - but it should not be deleted but moved to the page on the disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongyloidiasis
Also, there is still a lot more that should be moved, i.e. the parts on diagnosis and treatment? 
Complete eradication must be attained to prevent dangerous illness. This requires daily ivermectin 200-400 micrograms / kg, combined with Albendazol, for 14 dayshttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15689061. 
 
	
With short treatments such as currently recommended, infections are not likely to be fully cured. 
 
==Serology follow-up is necessary==
 
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Regular serology monitoring must be provided. Stool samples are not reliable for follow-uphttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25668740. Of the available serology tests, IVD-ELISA and IFAT had the best performance according to studyhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25668740.
 
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==National treatment strategies are needed==
 
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It is a public safety concern that such follow-up be made available to the public without cost. A concerted national and international effort is needed. This need is recognized by the WHOhttp://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/diseases/strongyloidiasis/en/.
 
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==Transmission==
 
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Transmission has been documented through contact with saliva such as kissing http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2310/7060.2000.00063/pdf. 
 
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Transmission through breast milk has been documented in animals and is probable in humans http://www.ndhealth.gov/disease/Documents/Presentation/Dwelle/Helminthology%20%96%20Nematodes%20Strongyloides.pdf
 
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More information is needed about transmission through skin contact, clothes and home surfaces. Information is also needed concerning effective disinfectants.
 
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Family members should be routinely treated, if one family member is or is thought to be infected. Proof is difficult to obtain as in 70 percent of cases, a single stool sample is falsely negativehttp://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0315/p1208a.html. It is important to treat family members empiricallyhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2310/7060.2000.00063/pdf even without proof of infection. They may not have the same symptoms. In the case study, an infected spouse suffered from symptoms such as insomnia, tinnitus and depression.
EvM-Susana (talk) 12:38, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content to be moved to the article on the disease