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| PEREIRA,Adriany Duarte; PINTO,Pedro Luiz Silva; CAMARGO,Juliana de Souza Almeida Aranha; SOUZA,Juliana Bianca Rocha de; AMANTE,Carlos Antônio; SOUZA,Viviane Krominski Graça de; SIMONE,Luiz Ricardo Lopes de; CAMARGO,Luís Marcelo Aranha. |
| ABSTRACT Schistossomiasis is a parasitic disease, caused by helminths of the genus Schistosoma and transmitted in Brazil by snails of the genus Biomphalaria. The municipality of Ouro Preto do Oeste, Rondônia, in the Brazilian Amazon Region, has unusually registered more than 900 cases of schistosomiasis in the last 10 years. The aim of this study was to investigate de potential of transmission of schsitosomiasis in Ouro Preto do Oeste. A total of 1,196 people in a risk area for the disease transmission were requested to answer a clinical-epidemiological survey and to collect feces samples for examination. All the samples that underwent examination resulted negative for S. mansoni. Two hundred and sixty-eight snails were collected in the locality of Ouro... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Schistosomiasis; Amazon; Transmission. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672016000400377 |
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