RT Journal
A1 SIMPSON VE
T1 STrongyloidiasis
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD March 4
VO 112
IS 9
SP 828
OP 833
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800090038007
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800090038007
AB The title of this paper describes an abnormal condition resulting from a parasitic invasion of the human body. It has been sixty-two years since Normand1 chronicled his observations of the condition in the French soldiers returning from Cochin China (1876), but little has appeared in medical literature since. Bavay in the same year observed a large number of infested workers in the St. Gothard tunnel and attempted some description of the parasite. In the United States the pioneer observer was Strong.PATHOGENICITY 
    Debate continues to rage around the query "Are the parasites pathogenic?" So far as the animal experimental work may aid conclusion, it appears that Sandground2 has demonstrated that they can cause symptoms. The failure to convict Strongyloides in the case of Cochin China diarrhea has perhaps been a factor in the rather general thought that the parasite causes no symptoms. Yet cases are found in the