Accelerated auto-infection with Strongyloides species complicating terminal carcinomatosis
Page, F.T.; Reeves, D.S., 1973: Accelerated auto-infection with Strongyloides species complicating terminal carcinomatosis. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 4(2): 256-259
Accelerated autoinfection by Strongyloides sp. is described in a 57-year-old man in Britain with terminal carcinomatosis. The infection was assumed to have been contracted during war service in Burma 26 years previously, but became rampant only because of a breakdown of defence mechanisms as a result of the carcinomatosis.