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Haemospermia: Observations in an Area of Endemic Bilharziasis
Author(s) -
ELEM B.,
PATIL P. S.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
british journal of urology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 0007-1331
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.1987.tb04957.x
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , schistosomiasis , parasitic infection , endemic diseases , medicine , helminths , immunology , environmental health , physics , optics
Summary— Observations are presented on 1 1 cases of haemospermia in the University Teaching Hospital, Zambia, a country where bilharziasis is endemic. Seven patients were severely hypertensive but only two had urinary bilharziasis. The incidence of Schistosorna haernatobiurn infection of the prostate and seminal vesicles is discussed and it is concluded that there is no significant association between the parasitic infection and haemospermia.