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Volume 26, Number 3—March 2020

CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Clinical Characteristics of Disseminated Strongyloidiasis, Japan, 1975–2017

Mitsuru MukaigawaraComments to Author , Masashi Narita, Soichi Shiiki, Yoshihiro Takayama, Shunichi Takakura, and Tomokazu Kishaba
Author affiliations: Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (M. Mukaigawara); Okinawa Chubu Hospital, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan (M. Mukaigawara, M. Narita, S. Shiiki, Y. Takayama, S. Takakura, T. Kishaba)

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Table 4

Involvement of larvae and enteric organisms in disseminated strongyloidiasis reported in previous studies*

Characteristic Dissemination Occult dissemination with meningitis/enteric organisms Occult dissemination with culture-negative suppurative meningitis
Involvement of larvae
 Confirmed (rhabditiform and filariform larvae)
 Confirmed (rhabditiform larvae)
 Confirmed (rhabditiform larvae)
Involvement of enteric organisms Confirmed Confirmed Not detected

*References 11, 14, and 15.

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