STUDIES ON HUMAN SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI INFECTIONS
- 5 August 1944
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 125 (14) , 961-963
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1944.02850320019006
Abstract
In the physical processing of Puerto Rican male inductees for Selective Service, a routine stool examination has been required by the Antilles Department. As a result of this type of examination, approximately 10 per cent1of otherwise healthy males were found positive for the ova of Schistosoma mansoni. A report of the Survey by Antilles Department Laboratory will appear shortly as part of this series of studies. In the light of this fact it was decided to carry on a proctologic study of a group of ova positive applicants, in an effort to ascertain what pathologic changes, if any, were demonstrable in the rectal mucosa of the hosts. The finding of changes in the rectal mucosa in 60.7 per cent of the 155 persons examined is in keeping with our understanding of the pathologic changes which take place in this infection and with our present knowledge of the lifeKeywords
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