Can one contract S. mansoni bilharziasis in Lake Togo or its surroundings?

Lapierre, J.; Tourte-Schaefer, C.; Amedome, A.

Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique et de Ses Filiales 81(2): 249-252

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0037-9085
PMID: 3138034
Document Number: 323381
Authors describe a case of S. mansoni intestinal schistosomiasis in a young wind-surfer. Lake Togo was suspected as a possible place of infection. An epidemiological investigation carried out on the lake and its surroundings (Sio and Hao rivers) has permitted to exclude this hypothesis.

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