Potential for shistosomiasis in a municipality of Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon
ABSTRACT Schistossomiasis is a parasitic disease, caused by helminths of the genus Schistosoma and transmitted in Brazil by snails of the genus Biomphalaria. The municipality of Ouro Preto do Oeste, Rondônia, in the Brazilian Amazon Region, has unusually registered more than 900 cases of schistosomi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Amazonica |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672016000400377&tlng=en |