Esquistossomosse em trabalhadores da Usina Catende, Pernambuco, Brasil
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Foi realizado estudo transversal sobre a esquistossomose mansonica em nove engenhos da usina Catende localizada na Zona da Mata sul do Estado de Pernambuco (Brasil).Abstract:
Foi realizado estudo transversal sobre a esquistossomose mansonica em nove engenhos da usina Catende localizada na Zona da Mata sul do Estado de Pernambuco (Brasil). A prevalencia foi 43,8% para a populacao geral dos engenhos e 64,6% para os trabalhadores de campo. A prevalencia das formas hepato-esplenicas foi 4,1% sendo que em dois engenhos chegou a 8,7% e 9,1%. Biomphalaria straminea foi o unico molusco transmissor encontrado na area; sua taxa de infeccao natural por S. Mansoni foi 0,07%. A esquistossomose pode ser considerada como doenca grave na regiao estudada.read more
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Schistosomiasis Prevalence and Intensity of Infection in Latin America and the Caribbean Countries, 1942-2014: A Systematic Review in the Context of a Regional Elimination Goal.
TL;DR: There is a need for updating the schistosomiasis status in the historically endemic countries and territories in LAC to address the required public health interventions for control and elimination programs or to verify the elimination of transmission of Schistosoma mansoni.
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Morbidity of mansoni schistosomiasis in Pernambuco-Brazil: Analysis on the temporal evolution of deaths, hospital admissions and severe clinical forms (1999-2014).
Constança Simões Barbosa,Elainne Christine de Souza Gomes,Julyana Viegas Campos,Fernando José Moreira de Oliveira,Millena Carla da Silva Mesquita,Emília Carolle Azevedo de Oliveira,Ana Lúcia Coutinho Domingues +6 more
TL;DR: The actions of the Schistosomiasis Control Program (PCE) have been developed in a disintegrated, disjointed and discontinuous way, which may explain the magnitude of deaths, hospitalizations and severe forms of the disease in Pernambuco, showing a lack of control and the maintenance of severe frame morbidity of schistosOMiasis in this state.
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Hepatosplenic forms of schistosomiasis mansoni in the interior of Northeastern Brazil
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional study on the morbidity of schistosomiasis mansoni was carried out in some rural endemic areas of Northeastern Brazil during the first semester of 1991.
Formas Hepatosplênicas da Esquistossomose Mansônica no Interior do Nordeste do Brasil Hepatosplenic Forms of Schistosomiasis Mansoni in the Interior of Northeastern Brazil
TL;DR: Results have shown a reduction in the prevalence rates of the more severe form of schistosomiasis, the hepatosplenic form, when compared with previous similar studies made in the same areas during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Profilaxia experimental da esquistosomose de Manson
TL;DR: Executa um programa de trabalho, onde combate os hospedeiros intermediarios "Tropicorbis centimetralis" (Lutz, 1918) pela cal extinta (Hidroxido de Calcio); reduz a disseminacao de ovos do parasito pelo tratamento dos doentes por produtos derivados do Antimonio.
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Cross-sectional studies on Schistosoma mansoni infection in northeast Brazil.
TL;DR: Although it is generally admitted that hepatosplenic forms of the disease occur more frequently between 10 and 40 years of age, the present study has shown that the proportion of these severe cases increases with increase of age.
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