Definition of "strongyloidiasis"

strongyloidiasis

noun
countable and uncountable, plural strongyloidiases
1. (medicine, pathology) infection by roundworms of the superfamily Strongyloidea
  Quotations
  In the AIDS era, the severe infestation of S. stercoralis, hyperinfection or disseminated strongyloidiasis, becomes an important superimposed infection .
  2006, Viroj Wiwanitkit, Tropical Anemia, page 53
  The global prevalence of strongyloidiasis is unclear and varies between 30 million and 100 million people infected .
  2011, Jean-François Timsit, Jean-Paul Brion, Hervé Pelloux, “Parasitic Lung Infections”, in Elie Azoulay, editor, Pulmonary Involvement in Patients with Hematological Malignancies, page 361
  As a result, strongyloidiasis can produce acute clinical syndromes (such as peritonitis) or mimic chronic abdominal problems such as peptic ulcer or gallbladder disease.
  2012, Cary Engleberg, Chapter 54: Intestinal Heminths, N. Cary Engleberg, Victor DiRita, Terence S. Dermody, Schaechter's Mechanisms of Microbial Disease, 5th Edition, page 537