Characterization of the non-apparent clinical form in the initial phase of schistosomiasis mansoni Caracterização da forma inaparente da fase inicial da esquistossomose mansoni

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Manoel Otávio da Costa Rocha, Enio Roberto Pietra Pedroso, Jayme Neves, Roberto Sena Rocha, Dirceu Bartolomeu Greco, José Roberto Lambertucci, Regina Lunardi Rocha, Naftale Katz
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1993
• Subjects: Acute schistosomiasis; Non-apparent form; Initial phase of schistosomiasis; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Aguda; Arctic; Ora
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651993000300005; https://doaj.org/article/e86fbf11f3af42fabb552edc219b2fe7

In this paper the history of 115 recruits that had bathed simultaneously in streams contaminated with Schistosoma mansoni, during military maneuvers, is reported. Thirty four of the infected patients presented the initial phase of the infection diagnosed through epidemiologic, clinical and laborator...