Clinical and laboratorial evaluation of urinary schistosomiasis in Brazilians after staying in Mozambique

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Iran Mendonça Da Silva²  Victor Tsang¹  John Noh¹  Luis Rey¹  Maria José Conceição¹ 

[1] ,Instituto de Biologia do Exército Divisão de Ensino e Pesquisa Seção de Vigilância EpidemiológicaRio de Janeiro RJ

关键词: Schistosomiasis;    Enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay;    Brazilians;    Mozambique;    Esquistossomose;    Enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay;    Brasileiros;    Moçambique;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0037-86822006000300009

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

We examined 87 Brazilian individuals of a group of 132 that, on July and November 1994, participated in a peace mission in Mozambique. They served in an endemic area for haematobic schistosomiasis, where they swum in Licungo river during leisure time. Their arithmetic mean age was 31 year and all of them were male. Their urine test showed that 30 (34.5%) eliminated S. haematobium eggs and 55 (63.2%) presented positive serology by the enzime-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot test with purified microsomal antigen of S. haematobium adult worms. Eosinophilia was found in 30 (34.5%), haematuria in 26 (29.9%), dysuria in 32 (36.8%) and lombar pain in 36 (41.4%). All of those that eliminated eggs through urine had positive serology. Among the 25 patients with positive serology and without S. haematobium eggs in the urine test, 13 were symptomatic and 12 assymptomatic. The treatment with praziquantel for the 30 patients, with urine positive to S. haematobium eggs, presented 70% of parasitological cure.

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