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*IHC for toxoplasma.<ref>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/N0I001-PQ01-M.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/N0I001-PQ01-M.htm]. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.</ref> | *IHC for toxoplasma.<ref>URL: [http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/N0I001-PQ01-M.htm http://moon.ouhsc.edu/kfung/jty1/opaq/PathQuiz/N0I001-PQ01-M.htm]. Accessed on: 19 October 2010.</ref> | ||
==Strongyloides== | ==Strongyloidiasis== | ||
* | ===General=== | ||
*Causes by worm ''Strongyloides stercoralis''. | |||
*High case mortality rate ~ 70%.<ref name=pmid15337730>{{Cite journal | last1 = Lim | first1 = S. | last2 = Katz | first2 = K. | last3 = Krajden | first3 = S. | last4 = Fuksa | first4 = M. | last5 = Keystone | first5 = JS. | last6 = Kain | first6 = KC. | title = Complicated and fatal Strongyloides infection in Canadians: risk factors, diagnosis and management. | journal = CMAJ | volume = 171 | issue = 5 | pages = 479-84 | month = Aug | year = 2004 | doi = 10.1503/cmaj.1031698 | PMID = 15337730 }}</ref> | |||
*May present after years of latency due to immune suppression.<ref name=pmid11528578>{{Cite journal | last1 = Siddiqui | first1 = AA. | last2 = Berk | first2 = SL. | title = Diagnosis of Strongyloides stercoralis infection. | journal = Clin Infect Dis | volume = 33 | issue = 7 | pages = 1040-7 | month = Oct | year = 2001 | doi = 10.1086/322707 | PMID = 11528578 }}</ref> | |||
Location: | |||
*Lung. (???) | |||
===Microscopic=== | |||
Features: | Features: | ||
*Long worms. | *Long worms. | ||
*~10-15 micrometers wide. | *~10-15 micrometers wide. | ||
Images: | |||
*[http://www.totallyfreeimages.com/121316/This-micrograph-reveals-adult-strongyloides-nematodes-located-am Strongyloides (CDC/totallyfreeimages.com)]. | |||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strongyloides_stercoralis_larva.jpg Strongyloides (WC)]. | |||
==Echinococcus== | ==Echinococcus== | ||