INTRODUCTION Epidemiology Soil-transmitted helminth infections are gotten through contact with soil contaminated with infected feces. STH infections were once common throughout the world, including the United States, and some occurrence are still seen in the U.S. each year. With proper sanitation, these infections are now common only in poorer countries. More than four billion people are at high risk throughout the world, with over one billion individuals already infected. The greatest numbers
Introduction Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE) is a syndrome that results from an immunologic hyperresponsiveness to filarial parasites, Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi, and is characterized by cough, dyspnoea and nocturnal wheezing, diffuse reticulonodular infiltrates in chest radiographs and marked peripheral blood eosinophilia(1, 2). This clinical entity is primarily described among men between 15-40 years of age(2, 3). We report two children less than 10 years of age who reported with
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