title: Risks of liver and spleen enlargement in schistosomiasis mansoni infection in a rural Zambian community.
abstract: At the Tropical Diseases Research Centre, Ndola, Zambia, we have used "relative risks" to demonstrate the relationship between intensity of Schistosoma mansoni infection and liver and spleen enlargement. There was a significant trend in risk for both right and left lobe liver enlargement across the intensity strata. However the risk for spleen enlargement showed no significant trend.
mesh_terms: D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006529:Hepatomegaly / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D010270:Parasite Egg Count; D012306:Risk; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000209:etiology*