In their study of a random sample of villagers in the southern part of Yunnan province, China, Peter Steinmann (Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland) and colleagues in China and Switzerland found that 11.7% of the sampled population was infected with S. stercoralis. This neglected soil-transmitted worm infects humans through the skin; in healthy people the illness is usually mild, but in people with weakened immune systems the disease can be fatal.
Citation: Steinmann P, Zhou X-N, Du Z-W, Jiang J-Y, Wang L-B, et al. (2007) Occurrence of Strongyloides stercoralis in Yunnan Province, China, and Comparison of Diagnostic Methods. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 1(1): e75. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0000075
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