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An Investigation into the Association of Creeping Eruption with Strongyloides Infection Contracted in the Far East*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

A. A. Sandosham
A. A. Sandosham
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From the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Dr. J. P. Caplan (1949) of the Ministry of Pensions Tropical Diseases Unit, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, reported that in the course of 8 years he had observed several hundred cases of creeping eruption am, ong ex-prisoners-of-war from the Far East and that more than 98 per cent, of them had Strongyloides infection.

According to Napier (1949), who comments on this condition, at least 90 per cent, of these patients had worked in Siam on. the notorious railway. One of Napier's cases came from the Assam-Burma frontier and one of Caplan's from Java. Professor J. J. C. Buckley, who was consulted, was of the opinion that morphologically the parasite in the faeces of these patients was in no way different from S. stercoralis Bavay, 1876).

The writer decided to undertake this investigation, with Professor Buckley's permission, on ascertaining that a friend of his, an English doctor on leave from Malaya who had worked on the Siamese. Railway under the Japanese, was harbouring Strongyloides infection and had creeping eruption.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , June 1952 , pp. 1 - 24
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1952

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