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Strongyloides stercoralis: hyperinfection in immunosuppressed dogs.

Abstract：

:Hyperinfective strongyloidiasis involving the threadworm , Strongyloides stercoralis, is well known in humans and primates. Although this nematode also frequently parasitizes dogs, canine hyperinfective strongyloidiasis has not been reported. To determine whether a fulminant pattern of nematode development can occur in dogs, and to test the S. stercoralis/dog system for suitability as a model for human hyperinfective and disseminated strongyloidiasis, five canine infections with a dog-derived strain of S. stercoralis were monitored by the quantitative recovery of larvae from feces. Even 3-month-old pups controlled their initial infections successfully, the number of larvae excreted declining to near zero in 90 days. Immunosuppressive treatment with prednisolone, prednisolone and azathiaprine , or niridazole resulted in a rapid return to former or greater intensities of infection, as judged by larval output. Only first stage ( rhabditiform ) larvae were passed in the feces, although third stage (filariform) larvae occurred in the intestinal contents of dogs when they were examined at necropsy. In 3 of the 5 dogs, the adult worm recovery exceeded the inoculated dose greatly and, in one of these, adults and rhabditiform larvae were found in distant, extraintestinal sites. In the remaining 2 of the 5 dogs, the adult worm population was less than the inoculated dose, but, in both, the infection was terminated by the host's death before hyperinfection could have developed. The observations demonstrate that autoinfection occurs in dogs infected with S. stercoralis and that, if it is allowed to continue for a sufficiently long time in immunosuppressed hosts, massive hyperinfection, and even disseminated infection, may occur. This spectrum of increasingly invasive parasitism closely resembles strongyloidiasis in humans. Therefore, the S. stercoralis/dog system has excellent potential as a model for human hyperinfective and disseminated strongyloidiasis.

journal_name

Exp Parasitol

journal_title

Experimental parasitology

authors

Schad GA,Hellman ME,Muncey DW

doi

10.1016/0014-4894(84)90103-6

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1984-06-01 00:00:00

pages

287-96

issue

eissn

0014-4894

issn

1090-2449

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Strongyloides stercoralis: hyperinfection in immunosuppressed dogs.