| prevalence of intestinal parasites in latino residents of chicago. | in 1970, 250,000 spanish-speaking persons resided in chicago, 80,000 of whom were puerto rican. because migration to chicago is constantly occurring from areas where intestinal parasites are endemic, a survey was conducted in a predominantly puerto rican neighborhood to determine the prevalence of these parasites and to provide impetus for further case finding and treatment programs. the survey was part of an epidemiologic and cutreach workers going door-to-door obtained histories, hematocrits, ... | 1975 | 1202954 |
| prevalence of intestinal parasites in a rural community in north-central puerto rico. | a hematology and parasitological survey was conducted in bayaney, hatillo, a rural community located in north-central puerto rico. a surprising finding was the comparatively high proportion of eosinophilia observed (43 of 83 individuals: 52%). of these same 83 individuals 16 were found positive for intestinal helminth eggs using the modified ritchie formol-ether concentration method, which uses 1 gram of feces. when eosinophilia was in the 5 to 10% range, 35% were also found to be infected with ... | 1990 | 2322350 |
| 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 |
| geographical pathology profile of aids in puerto rico: the first decade. | postmortem histopathological changes in 100 adult patients with aids who died in puerto rico from 1982 to 1991 were studied and tabulated. modes of hiv transmission were reviewed. patient ages ranged from 21 to 60 yr. gender composition for the patient group was 83 men (average age, 35 yr) and 17 women (average age, 39 yr). sixty-eight of the patients were injecting-drug users, 20 were homosexual and bisexual men, seven were women who had had heterosexual contact with men at risk for hiv, and on ... | 1994 | 7991523 |
| pancreatitis associated with strongyloides stercoralis infection in a patient chronically treated with corticosteroids. | strongyloides stercoralis is a nematode that is a ubiquitous parasite in man. life-threatening infections can occur in immunocompromised patients. we report a case of a 64-year-old puerto rican gentleman treated chronically with corticosteroids for reactive airway disease, who presented to our institution with pancreatitis complicated by sepsis and acute lung injury requiring mechanical ventilation. the initial working diagnosis was gallstone pancreatitis; however, several days into his hospital ... | 2010 | 20444734 |