Wet-smear diagnosis of genital schistosomiasis

Swart, P.J.; van der Merwe, J.V.; Swart, P.J; van der Merwe, J.V

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Wet-smear diagnosis of genital schistosomiasis

Swart, P.J.; van der Merwe, J.V.

South African Medical Journal 72(9): 631-632

1987

ISSN/ISBN: 0256-9574

PMID: 3120327

Document Number: 289989

8 patients with genital schistosomiasis were seen at Tembisa Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa, from June to August 1985. Diagnosis was made based on the presence of ova in a wet smear of the cervix (in 7 cases) and in a vulval ulcer (in one case). In all cases the ova were Schistosoma haematobium.