[Clinical study of strongyloidiasis].

Between 1961 and 1974 the authors had in their care 260 patients suffering from strongyloidiasis. The present paper deals with the clinical data evaluated from two points of view : the frequency of subjective and objective symptoms in the course of the disease, and the frequency of the groups of symptoms in terms of the clinical form of the disease. The frequency of the symptoms is listed according to the five evolutive stages of the disease (invasion, latency, pulmonary, gastrointestinal and neuropsychical phases). The following clinical forms were recorded : hepato-duodenovesicular, enterocolitic, pulmonary, neuropsychical, polymorphous and asymptomatic. Particularly efficient among the drugs used were gentian violet and dithiazanin (Telmid or Dilombrin).