Srongyloidiasis can sometimes be a source of diagnostic wandering in a patient with an autoimmune disease living in a tropical environment, despite systematic deworming with albendazole (400 mg/day/3 days), prior to the starting of a corticotherapy. We report an observation of a febrile gastroenteritis complicated by signs of intra and extracellular dehydration, in a 37-year-old lupus patient, including duodenal biopsies, and stool parasitology, which led to the diagnosis of strongyloidiasis effectively treated by ivermectin per os (two doses) of 200 micrograms/kg, once every 2 weeks apart), following failure of a first 5-days course of albendazole (400 mg/day).

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