Hotez P, Stillwaggon E, McDonald M, Todman L, DiGrazia L. National summit on neglected infections of poverty in the United States. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010;16: e1.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Hotez PJ. Neglected infections of poverty in the United States of America. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008;2: e256.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

U.S. Census Bureau. Figure 8. Child supplemental poverty rates by race and Hispanic origin: 2009 to 2021. Curr Popul Surv [Internet]. 2022 [cited 2023 Jun 5]; Available from: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/2022/demo/p60-277/figure8.pdf

Secor WE, Meites E, Starr MC, Workowski KA. Neglected parasitic infections in the United States: Trichomoniasis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014;90:800–4.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Petersen LR, Jamieson DJ, Powers AM, Honein MA. Zika virus. N Engl J Med. 2016;374:1552–63.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Montgomery SP, Starr MC, Cantey PT, Edwards MS, Meymandi SK. Neglected parasitic infections in the United States: Chagas disease. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014;90:814–8.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Cantey PT, Coyle CM, Sorvillo FJ, Wilkins PP, Starr MC, Nash TE. Neglected parasitic infections in the United States: Cysticercosis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014;90:805–9.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

•• Lier AJ, Tuan JJ, Davis MW, Paulson N, McManus D, Campbell S, et al. Case report: Disseminated strongyloidiasis in a patient with COVID-19. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020;103:1590–2. This case report highlights the danger of prescribing immunosuppressive therapy, including for COVID-19, prior to screening at-risk patients for Strongyloides infection. Clinicians must first be able to identify high-risk patients; this requires heightened awareness of strongyloidiasis amongst US frontline clinicians.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Page W, Judd JA, Bradbury RS. The unique life cycle of Strongyloides stercoralis and implications for public health action. Trop Med Infect Dis. 2018;3:53.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

McKenna ML, McAtee S, Bryan PE, Jeun R, Ward T, Kraus J, et al. Human intestinal parasite burden and poor sanitation in rural Alabama. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017;97:1623–8.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Lee RM, Moore LB, Bottazzi ME, Hotez PJ. Toxocariasis in North America: A systematic review. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014;8: e3116.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Woodhall DM, Eberhard ML, Parise ME. Neglected parasitic infections in the United States: Toxocariasis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014;90:810–3.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Page MJ, McKenzie JE, Bossuyt PM, Boutron I, Hoffmann TC, Mulrow CD, et al. The PRISMA 2020 statement: An updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews. BMJ. 2021;372: n71.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Klotz SA, Dorn PL, Mosbacher M, Schmidt JO. Kissing bugs in the United States: Risk for vector-borne disease in humans. Environ Health Insights. 2014;8:49–59.

PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Hernandez S, Flores CA, Viana GM, Sanchez DR, Traina MI, Meymandi SK. Autochthonous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in Southern California. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016;3:ofw227.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Waleckx E, Suarez J, Richards B, Dorn PL. Triatoma sanguisuga blood meals and potential for Chagas disease, Louisiana, USA. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014;20:2141–3.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Starr MC, Montgomery SP. Soil-transmitted helminthiasis in the United States: A systematic review–1940-2010. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011;85:680–4.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Miller LA, Colby K, Manning SE, Hoenig D, McEvoy E, Montgomery S, et al. Ascariasis in humans and pigs on small-scale farms, Maine, USA, 2010–2013. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015;21:332–4.

Article  CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Gipson K, Avery R, Shah H, Pepiak D, Bégué RE, Malone J, et al. Löffler syndrome on a Louisiana pig farm. Respir Med Case Rep. 2016;19:128–31.

PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Elman C, McGuire RA, Wittman B. Extending public health: The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission and hookworm in the American South. Am J Public Health. 2014;104:47–58.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Puthiyakunnon S, Boddu S, Li Y, Zhou X, Wang C, Li J, et al. Strongyloidiasis-An insight into its global prevalence and management. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014;8: e3018.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

• Singer R, Sarkar S. Modeling strongyloidiasis risk in the United States. Int J Infect Dis IJID Off Publ Int Soc Infect Dis. 2020;100:366–72. This modeling study predicts suitable habitat for S. stercoralis in ten states beyond the southeastern US where the parasite has been reported, expanding the theoretical risk of this STH into large swaths of the country where clinicians are unaware of its potential to cause fatal disease. The study provides evidence to support the recommendation that 16 states in the ecological range of the parasite should conduct surveillance for it and promote education of clinicians so that suspicion for this infection can be appropriately applied to at-risk patients.

Google Scholar 

•• Singer R, Xu TH, Herrera LNS, Villar MJ, Faust KM, Hotez PJ, et al. Prevalence of intestinal parasites in a low-income Texas community. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2020;102:1386–95. This study documents 16.5% seropositivity for S. stercoralis and 62.8% stool positivity for Blastocystis spp. in a central Texas community with sanitation failure.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Russell ES, Gray EB, Marshall RE, Davis S, Beaudoin A, Handali S, et al. Prevalence of Strongyloides stercoralis antibodies among a rural Appalachian population–Kentucky, 2013. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014;91:1000–1.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Walsh MG, Haseeb MA. Toxocariasis and lung function: Relevance of a neglected infection in an urban landscape. Acta Parasitol. 2014;59:126–31.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Ranasuriya G, Mian A, Boujaoude Z, Tsigrelis C. Pulmonary toxocariasis: A case report and literature review. Infection. 2014;42:575–8.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Boye B, Wayne M, Sukumaran S, Vijayan V. Blurry vision and irregularly shaped pupil in a 3-year-old female. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2019;58:1038–41.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Franco-Paredes C, Mathur S, Villamil-Gomez W, Henao-Martínez AF. A man who harvest peanuts with verrucous lesions in his right index finger. Am J Med Sci. 2018;355: e7.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Palmieri JR, Santo A, Johnson SE. Soil-acquired cutaneous nocardiosis on the forearm of a healthy male contracted in a swamp in rural eastern Virginia. Int Med Case Rep J. 2014;7:41–7.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Anagnostou T, Arvanitis M, Kourkoumpetis TK, Desalermos A, Carneiro HA, Mylonakis E. Nocardiosis of the central nervous system. Medicine (Baltimore). 2014;93:19–32.

Article  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Wang H-L, Seo Y-H, LaSala PR, Tarrand JJ, Han XY. Nocardiosis in 132 patients with cancer: Microbiological and clinical analyses. Am J Clin Pathol. 2014;142:513–23.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Shannon K, Pasikhova Y, Ibekweh Q, Ludlow S, Baluch A. Nocardiosis following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Transpl Infect Dis Off J Transplant Soc. 2016;18:169–75.

Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Lang PO, Loulergue P, Aspinall R. Chikungunya virus infection: Why should US geriatricians be aware of it? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017;65:2529–34.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Kendrick K, Stanek D, Blackmore C, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Notes from the field: Transmission of chikungunya virus in the continental United States-Florida, 2014. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014;63:1137.

PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

Meaney-Delman D, Hills SL, Williams C, Galang RR, Iyengar P, Hennenfent AK, et al. Zika virus infection among U.S. pregnant travelers - August 2015-February 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016;65:211–4.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Rasmussen SA, Jamieson DJ, Honein MA, Petersen LR. Zika virus and birth defects — Reviewing the evidence for causality. N Engl J Med. 2016;374:1981–7.

Article  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Adams L, Bello-Pagan M, Lozier M, Ryff KR, Espinet C, Torres J, et al. Update: Ongoing Zika virus transmission - Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015-July 7, 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016;65:774–9.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Dirlikov E, Ryff KR, Torres-Aponte J, Thomas DL, Perez-Padilla J, Munoz-Jordan J, et al. Update: Ongoing Zika virus transmission - Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015-April 14, 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016;65:451–5.

Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Thomas DL, Sharp TM, Torres J, Armstrong PA, Munoz-Jordan J, Ryff KR, et al. Local transmission of Zika virus–Puerto Rico, November 23, 2015-January 28, 2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2016;65:154–8.

Article