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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060 EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 105, No. 4, 2010, pp. 549-554
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Bioline Code: oc10095
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge
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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 105, No. 4, 2010, pp. 549-554
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Current epidemiological status of schistosomiasis in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil
Barbosa, Constança Simões; Araújo, Karina Conceição; Sevilla, Manuel Alexander Amarista; Melo, Fabio; Gomes, Elainne Christine de Souza & Souza-Santos, Reinaldo
Abstract
Uncontrolled peripheral urbanisation coupled with environmental degradation has affected the status of
schistosomiasis in Pernambuco (PE), Brazil. This endemic disease continues to perpetuate its transmission in rural areas
and has also become a cause for concern in coastal towns of the state. The lack of basic infrastructure (sanitation
and health programmes) to support the new urban areas leads to faecal contamination of natural aquatic
environments, resulting in consequent infection of vector snails and the emergence of new sources of schistosomiasis
transmission. In the present paper, we discuss the current epidemiological status of schistosomiasis in PE. We have
consolidated and analysed information from parasitological, malacological and morbidity surveys undertaken by
the group of researchers at the Laboratory of Schistosomiasis, Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães-Fiocruz.
The results of our analysis show: (i) the maintenance of the levels of schistosomiasis in the rural Zona da Mata, PE,
(ii) the record of the human cases of schistosomiasis and the foci of infected snails detected along the coast of PE
through 2007, (iii) the high record of the severe clinical form of schistosomiasis in the metropolitan region of Recife
(RMR) and (iv) new breeding sites of schistosomiasis vector snails that were identified in a 2008 survey covering the
RMR and the coastal localities of PE.
Keywords
schistosomiasis - epidemiological monitoring - endemic diseases
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