PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Iliana Neumann
AU  - Rhianna Ritter
AU  - Anne Mounsey
TI  - Strongyloides as a Cause of Fever of Unknown Origin
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2012.03.110101
DP  - 2012 May 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 390--393
VI  - 25
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/25/3/390.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/25/3/390.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2012 May 01; 25
AB  - Strongyloides is endemic in parts of the United States. Most often it is asymptomatic but it has a wide range of clinical presentations. Because of the unusual capacity of strongyloides for autoinfection, it can cause hyperinfection, when it effects the pulmonary and gastrointestinal systems, or disseminated infection, when other organs are involved. Both hyperinfection and disseminated strongyloides usually occur in immunosuppressed patients. We report a case of hyperinfection with strongyloides in a man presenting with fever of unknown origin who was not immunosuppressed.