Occurrence of a community with high morbidity associated with Schistosoma mansoni infection regardless of low infection intensity in north-east Brazil

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 144-149

  Tanabe, Masanobu ^a,b   Gonçalves, José Felip ^c   Gonçalves, Fernando José ^c   Tateno, Seiki ^a,b   Takeuchi, Tsutomu ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c Ctro de Pesq Aggeu Magalhaes   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Infection intensity; Morbidity; Periportal fibrosis; Schistosoma mansoni; Schistosomiasis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILE ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMMUNITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FECES ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER SIZE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPLEEN SIZE; SPLENOMEGALY;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 0030946614     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(97)90201-7     Document Type: Article

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