Strongyloidiasis

 

 

Small bowel biopsy illustrating a few worms within a crypt. Larvae enter through the skin and pass through the

lungs before entering the intestine where they evolve into worm forms. Peripheral blood eosinophilia is usual.

 

Contributed by Dr. Murray Resnick

 

1 minute clinical correlation

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