Schistosomiasis Haematobium A Case Imported by a Japanese Patient

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  • OHNISHI Kenji
    Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Bokutoh General Hospital

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  • ビルハルツ住血吸虫症: 日本人輸入感染の1例

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Abstract

Schistosomiasis haematobium is a common infectious disease in certain countries in Africa and western Asia. However to our knowlege, only three Japanese patients have been reported to have this disease in Japan in the 1990's, and in all three cases the disease was contracted outside of Japan. Recently, we treated a non-symptomatic Japanese patient infected with Schistosoma haematobium who had recently returned from Africa. The purpose of this report is to emphasize the importance of parasitological investigation for people who have visited or resided in tropical developing countries, even if no symptoms of infection are evident.

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  • Kansenshogaku Zasshi

    Kansenshogaku Zasshi 71 (7), 672-674, 1997

    The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases

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