Hyperinfection by Strongyloides stercoralis probably associated with Rituximab in a patient with mantle cell lymphoma and hyper eosinophilia

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Renzo Nino Incani²  Marcos Hernández¹  María Elena González¹ 

[1] ,Departamento de Parasitología

关键词: Strongyloides stercoralis;    Hyperinfection;    Rituximab;    Eosinophilia;    Lung dissemination;    Lymphoma;    Mantle-cell lymphoma;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46652010000400011

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The first report to our knowledge, of hyperinfection by Strongyloides stercoralis (HS) and hypereosinophilia, associated to immune suppression by Rituximab (the only drug received for the last one year and 10 months), in a patient with mantle-cell lymphoma (MCL), is presented. The patient has a 3-year history of MCL, and developed two accesses of HS during 2008, including meningitis, pneumonia and presence of larvae of S. stercoralis in the lungs. We had a unique chance to look at cytotoxicity of filariform larvae in the expectoration after Ivermectin treatment, showing immobilization and death of larvae, associated with eosinophils attached to the cuticle of the parasite.

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