| 1. | Larvae may be detected in sputum from patients with disseminated strongyloidiasis.
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| 2. | The medication ivermectin is widely used to treat strongyloidiasis.
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| 3. | Strongyloidiasis is a type of soil-transmitted helminthiasis.
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| 4. | Strongyloidiasis appears to have a high prevalence in some areas of Brazil and Central America.
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| 5. | Regions of Japan used to have endemic strongyloidiasis, but control programs have eliminated the disease.
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| 6. | Strongyloidiasis was first described in the 19th century in French soldiers returning home from expeditions in Indochina.
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| 7. | In the Pacific islands, strongyloidiasis is rare, although some cases have been reported from Fiji.
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| 8. | In tropical Australia, some rural and remote Australian Aboriginal communities have very high prevalences of strongyloidiasis.
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| 9. | These diseases include strongyloidiasis, hookworm caused by " Ancylostoma duodenale, " scabies, and streptococcal infections.
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| 10. | ""'Strongyloides stercoralis " "'is a human pathogenic parasitic roundworm causing the disease strongyloidiasis.
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