| Literature DB >> 26084315 |
S L Becker1, H Marti, S Zimmermann, D Vidacek, M Herrmann, J Utzinger, P A Schnabel, R M Bohle.
Abstract
In February 2015, a male patient from Eritrea with persistent abdominal pain and rectal bleeding was diagnosed with Schistosoma mansoni infection upon examination of a rectal biopsy. In May 2015, repeated stool microscopy identified S. mansoni infection in another Eritrean patient with abdominal pain and considerable eosinophilia (34%). Use of point-of-care circulating cathodic antigen (POC-CCA) tests on urine confirmed S. mansoni infection in both patients. Wider application of non-invasive POC-CCA urine tests will improve schistosomiasis diagnosis and clinical management in migrants.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID： 26084315 DOI： 10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.23.21151
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Euro Surveill ISSN： 1025-496X