Patients with severe schistosomiasis mansoni in Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Severe hepatosplenic complications arise in patients with chronic Schistosoma mansoni infection after heavy exposure to disease agents in endemic areas. These complications are rarely reported and, hence, underestimated.

Case presentation

We report on eight patients with severe morbidity associated with S. mansoni infection in Ituri Province, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The patients were identified during a community-based survey in 2017; one patient was seen at the district hospital. After taking the patients' history, a clinical examination and an abdominal ultrasonographical examination were performed. S. mansoni infection was diagnosed in fecal (Kato-Katz technique) and urine (point-of-case circulating cathodic antigen test) samples. These

SUBMITTER: Nigo MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7992822 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature