Investigation of schistosomiasis cases and deaths in the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 2005-2013.
Emília Carolle Azevedo de OliveiraThúlio José Ferreira PimentelJoão Paulo Maciel de AraujoLuiz Claudio de Souza OliveiraVirgínia Conceição Nascimento FernandoRodrigo Moraes LoyoElainne Christine de Souza GomesRafael da Silveira MoreiraConstança Simões BarbosaPublished in: Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil (2018)
investigation of deaths showed that some individuals had never traveled outside Recife and progressed to the chronic stage of the disease; 23.8% of the cases registered on SINAN had Recife as the municipality in which infection occurred.
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