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Löffler’s syndrome or Loeffler’s syndrome is a disease in which eosinophils accumulate in the lung in response to a parasitic infection. It was first described in 1932 by Wilhelm Löffler in cases of eosinophilic pneumonia caused by the parasites Ascaris lumbricoides Strongyloides stercoralis and the hookworms Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.

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