title: [African schistosomiasis at the invasion stage. Criteria for diagnosis. Control after 5 years (author's transl)].
abstract: The authors expose their conclusions after controlling 181 young soldiers affected by schistosomiasis in an epidemic having occured in Tchad en 1973-74, none of them having been later on submitted to parasitic infection: --relative value of classical diagnosis criteria (50 p. 100); --reliability of immunologic symptoms; -- frequency, importance and precocity of specific granulomatous hepatic changes, detected by laparoscopie and biopsy (87,2 p. 100 of the cases). The value of niridazole is confirmed but continuance of granulomatosis after clinical recovery is not an exceptionnal possibility five years after the treatment, then raising diagnostic and immunologic problems.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis; D008109:Liver Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D009560:Niridazole / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012548:Schistosoma haematobium; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000469:parasitology
chemical_list: D009560:Niridazole
vernacular_title: Les bilharzioses africaines de première invasion. Eléments de diagnostic. Evolution à 5 ans.