strongyloidiasis

English

Etymology

From strongyloid +‎ -iasis.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪəsɪs

Noun

strongyloidiasis (countable and uncountable, plural strongyloidiases)

1. (medicine, pathology) infection by roundworms of the superfamily Strongyloidea
   • 2006, Viroj Wiwanitkit, Tropical Anemia, page 53:

     In the AIDS era, the severe infestation of S. stercoralis, hyperinfection or disseminated strongyloidiasis, becomes an important superimposed infection [38].

   • 2011, Jean-François Timsit, Jean-Paul Brion, Hervé Pelloux, “Parasitic Lung Infections”, in Elie Azoulay, editor, Pulmonary Involvement in Patients with Hematological Malignancies, page 361:

     The global prevalence of strongyloidiasis is unclear and varies between 30 million and 100 million people infected [3].

   • 2012, Cary Engleberg, Chapter 54: Intestinal Heminths, N. Cary Engleberg, Victor DiRita, Terence S. Dermody, Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, 5th Edition, page 537,

     As a result, strongyloidiasis can produce acute clinical syndromes (such as peritonitis) or mimic chronic abdominal problems such as peptic ulcer or gallbladder disease.

Related terms

• strongyloidosis