Twenty-five Years of Chronic Strongyloidiasis in an Immigrant.

Chronic strongyloidiasis is an infection of the tropical regions, caused by the nematode . In the United States, patients are typically immigrants. The very long asymptomatic phase followed by the clinical presentation of the disease mimics asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as in this case report.