title: [Investigation on schistosomiasis japonica infection and preventive knowledge of immigration population in Jinshan District, Shanghai].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the schistosomiasis japonica infection and preventive knowledge of immigration population in Jinshan District, Shanghai so as to provide the evidence for improving the control work.
  
  
  METHODS
  The immigration population from schistosomiasis endemic provinces and local people were screened by serum IHA screening for schistosome infection, and the positives were further examined by Kato-Katz technique and the miracidium hatching method. The schistosomiasis preventive knowledge and behaviors were investigated by questionnaires.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 579 were investigated with 348 immigration people and 231 local people, and among them, the male accounted for 72.0% and female accounted for 28.0%. In the immigration population, the main age group was 20-29 (56.0%), and 56.6% of the immigration had an education level at senior middle school or higher. The most proportion of immigration was from Anhui Province (36.2%). There were 4 IHA positive persons (1.15%) in the immigration, and 1 was positive in the stool test, and the schistosome infection rate was 0.29%. There were no positives in the local people. The schistosomiasis preventive knowledge of the immigration was generally poor, and some people' s behaviors of see doctor and medication were incorrect.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There are schistosome infected persons among the immigration population from schistosomiasis endemic provinces, and their schistosomiasis prevention knowledge was poor, thus there is a schistosomiasis transmission risk.
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Jian-xiu
authors.initials: JX
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Rui-fang
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Guo-hong
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Chun-li
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Cao
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Shi-zhu
authors.initials: SZ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jia-gang
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012549:Schistosoma japonicum / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology; D012554:Schistosomiasis japonica / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055815:Young Adult