Specific Situations Related to Acute Schistosomiasis in Pernambuco, Brazil

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Volumn 96, Issue SUPPL., 2001, Pages 169-172

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

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Núcleo de Tele Saúde NUTES Hospital das Clínicas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute schistosomiasis; Brazil; Environmental epidemiology; Pernambuco; Snail vectors

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAZIL; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

EID: 0035233237     PISSN: 00740276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02762001000900026     Document Type: Article

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