Publications

results of testing for intestinal parasites by state diagnostic laboratories, united states, 1987.	we analyzed results of 216,275 stool specimens examined by the state diagnostic laboratories in 1987; parasites were found in 20.1%. percentages were highest for protozoans: giardia lamblia (7.2%), entamoeba coli and endolimax nana (4.2% each), blastocystis hominis (2.6%), entamoeba histolytica (0.9%), and cryptosporidium species (0.2%). identifications of giardia lamblia increased broadly from the 4.0% average found in 1979, with 40 states reporting increases and seven decreases. most states th ...	1991	1779956
syndrome of hyperinfection with strongyloides stercoralis.	two patients hyperinfected with strongyloides stercoralis (an intestinal nematode) are described. both were both in puerto rico and had left the island six to 15 years previously; both were receiving adrenal steroids (one for hodgkin's disease and the other for goodpasture's syndrome). one died shortly after diagnosis, but the other survived the hyperinfection syndrome and complicating bacterial sepsis and meningitis. in addition to our case reports, 103 previously described cases of presumed st ...	1981	7025145