Measuring morbidity associated with urinary schistosomiasis: assessing levels of excreted urine albumin and urinary tract pathologies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Urinary schistosomiasis is responsible for a variety of debilitating conditions; foremost perhaps are urinary tract pathologies (UTPs). Although portable ultrasonography can be used to detect UTPs visually, there is still a need for rapid morbidity assessment (henceforth referred to as RaMA) tools that can be deployed in the field during implementation, monitoring and evaluation of control programmes. We therefore aimed to determine associations between excreted urine-albumin, as measured using a HemoCue photometer, and UTPs, as detected by ultrasonography, in children and adults from an urinary schistosomiasis endemic area in Zanzibar.

Methodology/principal findings

In a survey of 140 school-children of both sexes (aged 9 to 15 yr) and 47 adult males (> or =16 yr

SUBMITTER: Sousa-Figueiredo JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2752803 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature