An outbreak of schistosomiasis in travellers returning from endemic areas: the importance of rigorous tracing in peer groups exposed to risk of infection | Zendy

Ola Blach | Zendy; Bhavan Prasad | Zendy; Kim Oates | Zendy; G.F. Franklin | Zendy; S. Bramwell | Zendy

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An outbreak of schistosomiasis in travellers returning from endemic areas: the importance of rigorous tracing in peer groups exposed to risk of infection

Author(s) -

Ola Blach,

Bhavan Prasad,

Kim Oates,

G.F. Franklin,

S. Bramwell

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1741-3850

pISSN - 1741-3842

DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdr099

Subject(s) - schistosomiasis , outbreak , environmental health , epidemiology , contact tracing , public health , geography , endemic diseases , medicine , virology , immunology , helminths , pathology , disease , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty)

Each year, schools across Scotland send their students on exchange programmes to Malawi. Between 2005 and 2009, 22.8% of Scotland's new cases of schistosomiasis were from freshwater exposure in Malawi, with 41.5% diagnosed in 15-24 year olds. In January 2011, a 17-year-old male presented to our urology department with visible haematuria following freshwater exposure during a school trip to Malawi. He was subsequently diagnosed with urinary schistosomiasis.

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