Review Strongyloidiasis—An Insight into Its Global Prevalence and Management

Background: Strongyloides stercoralis, an intestinal para-sitic nematode, infects more than 100 million people worldwide. Strongyloides are unique in their ability to exist as a free-living and autoinfective cycle. Strongyloi-diasis can occur without any symptoms or as a potentially fatal hyperinfection or disseminated infection. The most common risk factors for these complications are immu-nosuppression caused by corticosteroids and infection with human T-lymphotropic virus or human immunode-ficiency virus. Even though the diagnosis of strongyloidi-asis is improved by advanced instrumentation techniques in isolated and complicated cases of hyperinfection or dissemination, efficient guidelines for screening the population in epidemiological surveys are lacking