| chronic strongyloidiasis in tasmanian veterans--clinical diagnosis by the use of a screening index. | chronic infection with strongyloides stercoralis presents a diagnostic problem because of the low recovery of the organism from stools and the insensitivity of current serological tests. of 150 former far east pows, 26 (17%) had s. stercoralis in stools. the clinical features in 18 stool-positive patients were compared to those in 24 stool-negative patients and showed that strongyloidiasis was associated with a higher frequency of alteration in bowel habit, upper abdominal discomfort, rash and e ... | 1989 | 2590096 |