Open AccessDistribuição da esquistossomose no espaço urbano. 1. O caso da região metropolitana de Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Author(s) -
Pedro Coura-Filho
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
cadernos de saúde pública
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.633
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1678-4464
pISSN - 0102-311X
DOI - 10.1590/s0102-311x1997000200014
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , geography , endemic disease , schistosomiasis , disease , medicine , helminths , immunology , pathology , archaeology
This article characterizes the etiological conditions for schistosomiasis mansoni in the urban portion of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Knowledge about this endemic disease is discussed with a clinical focus on subjects who lived in endemic areas from 1946 to 1994, taking into account the specific indicators for the endemic disease according to the measures adopted in its control.