An outbreak of acute schistosoma mansoni schistosomiasis in a nonendemic area of Brazil: A report on 50 cases, including 5 with severe clinical manifestations

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lambertucci, José Roberto ^a   Drummond, Sandra Costa ^a   Voieta, Izabela ^a   De Queiróz, Leonardo Campos ^a   Pereira, Pedro Paulo Nunes ^a   Chaves, Bruna Assis ^a   Botelho, Patrícia Passos ^b   Prata, Pedro Henrique ^a   Otoni, Alba ^c   Vilela, José Fagundes ^d   Antunes, Carlos Maurício ^e  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b Programa de Avaliação e Vigilância   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

^d Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de São João Del Rei   (Brazil)

^e Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Belo Horizonte Hospital   (Brazil)

Author keywords

acute schistosomiasis; fever of unknown origin; myeloradiculopathy; outbreak; pulmonary nodules

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL; PREDNISONE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CERCARIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS MEDULLARIS; COUGHING; DEHYDRATION; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHILIA; EPIDEMIC; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIA; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MELENA; MYELORADICULOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PARAPLEGIA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RECTUM BIOPSY; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SWIMMING POOL; URINE RETENTION;

ACUTE SCHISTOSOMIASIS; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; MYELORADICULOPATHY; OUTBREAK; PULMONARY NODULES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; BRAZIL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878871234     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit157     Document Type: Article

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