Specific situations related to acute schistosomiasis in Pernambuco, Brazil

AUTOR(ES)

Barbosa, Constança Simões, Montenegro, Silvia Maria Lucena, Abath, Frederico Guilherme Coutinho, Domingues, Ana Lúcia Coutinho

FONTE

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001-09

RESUMO

The present work reports on two epidemiological episodes resulting in acute schistosomiasis involving wealthy persons living in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. The authors discuss the epidemiological, clinical and serologic characteristics of the acute infections and also the way in which the conditions for transmission occurred.

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