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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about strongyloidiasis and death from strongyloidiasis.
Meaning of strongyloidiasis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, strongyloidiasis means an infection with the parasitic roundworm Strongyloides stercoralis.
            Note 1: Strongyloides stercoralis can replicate indefinitely inside the body (autoinfective cycle) without any further contact with contaminated soil, causing a lifelong infection if left untreated.
            Note 2: Following infection, in otherwise healthy people, there may be no symptoms, or symptoms and signs may arise at variable times, even up to several decades later.  Symptoms may include, but are not limited to, skin lesions, dry cough, breathing difficulties, diarrhoea, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting.  People with immunosuppression can develop sudden and severe illnesses, known as strongyloidiasis hyperinfection syndrome and disseminated strongyloidiasis.
(3)          While strongyloidiasis attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B78, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of strongyloidiasis is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from strongyloidiasis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, strongyloidiasis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's strongyloidiasis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.