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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 96, No. s1, 2001, pp. 169-172
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Bioline Code: oc01170
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 96, No. s1, 2001, pp. 169-172
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SHORT COMMUNICATION - Specific Situations Related to Acute Schistosomiasis in Pernambuco, Brazil
Constança Simões Barbosa; Silvia Maria Lucena Montenegro; Frederico Guilherme Coutinho Abath & Ana Lúcia Coutinho Domingues
Abstract
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.
Keywords
acute schistosomiasis, environmental epidemiology, snail vectors, Pernambuco, Brazil
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