Roundworms
It completes its whole life cycle inside one host, so it persists for decades — and steroids turn that into hyperinfection with 60% ICU mortality.
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It completes its whole life cycle inside one host, so it persists for decades — and steroids turn that into hyperinfection with 60% ICU mortality.
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133 ICU patients. 83.5% were on long-term corticosteroids; in-ICU mortality 60.3%. Two details for the episode: shock was usually driven by a concomitant gram-negative infection carried by the migrating larvae, and eosinophilia was present in only about a third — so the test people rely on is least reliable exactly when the stakes are highest.
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