BILHARZIASIS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
- 20 March 1926
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 86 (12) , 816-818
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1926.02670380006004
Abstract
If one judges from case reports in the literature, the incidence of bilharzial infections in this country is comparatively rare. In every case reported, infection has taken place in some foreign country where the disease is endemic, and has been imported. According to Leiper,1schistosomiasis is very prevalent in Egypt, Mesopotamia and South Africa, and occurs sporadically in West Africa, Madagascar, western Australia and Persia. Apparently the first authentic case in this country was reported in 1897 by Brooks of New York. In 1910, Lane2reported a case of bilharzial appendicitis in a patient, aged 22, who had gone to South Africa at the age of 15. He reviews the literature and cites all the cases reported up to the time of his own case. From Lane's report of the literature, it appears that nine cases (including Lane's case) of undoubted schistosomiasis had been reported in the UnitedKeywords
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