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Sunday, January 2, 2011

EPIDEMIOLOGY



-Nomand (1876) observed minute cylindrical worms in the diarrhoiec feces and intestinal walls of some French soldiers in Cochin-China.
-these were named Strongyloides stercolaris (strongylus-round; eidos-resembling ; stercoralis-feces)
-found mainly in warm moist tropics, but may also occur in the temperate regions.
-it is common in Brazil,Columbia and in the Far East-Myanmar,Thailand, Vietnam ,Malaysia and Philippines.

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