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Cercarial Transformation and in vitro Cultivation of Schistosoma mansoni Schistosomules
Published on: August 16, 2011
[Urinary schistosomiasis. Clinical study of 20 patients in Cuba]
Abstract:
Twenty patients involving three Cubans coming foreign countries with a diagnosis of urinary schistosomiasis are studied. The importance of laboratory diagnosis and radiographic study, mainly simple study and post-mictional cystography, is stressed. The lesions found during cystoscopies are described and it is attempted their classification. In all cases the diagnosis was corroborated from biopsy samples. The usefulness of the ambilhar therapy is pointed out.
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