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  • Title: Acute pulmonary schistosomiasis in travelers returning from Lake Malawi, sub-Saharan Africa.
    Author: Cooke GS, Lalvani A, Gleeson FV, Conlon CP.
    Journal: Clin Infect Dis; 1999 Oct; 29(4):836-9. PubMed ID: 10589899.
    Abstract:
    We describe four cases of acute schistosomiasis presenting to the Infectious Diseases Unit of John Radcliffe Hospital (Oxford, England) during a 2-month period in autumn 1997. All four patients had swum in Lake Malawi, a freshwater lake in sub-Saharan Africa that is associated with Schistosoma haematobium and, less commonly, Schistosoma mansoni infections. All four patients had a severe acute illness and had prominent pulmonary involvement, both clinically and radiologically. This represents a change in the recognized pattern of presentation and could possibly reflect a new parasite variant in the lake.
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