• Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. · Dec 2008

    Case Reports

    Case report: failure of subcutaneous ivermectin in treating Strongyloides hyperinfection.

    • Victor Leung, Ghada N Al-Rawahi, Jennifer Grant, Lawrence Fleckenstein, and William Bowie.
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. victor.leung@mail.mcgill.ca
    • Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 2008 Dec 1; 79 (6): 853-5.

    AbstractA man with Escherichia coli meningitis and bacteremia, while on dexamethasone, developed Strongyloides hyperinfection syndrome and died despite salvage therapy with subcutaneous ivermectin. We report the first documented total and free levels of subcutaneous ivermectin used for therapy.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…