title: First report of schistosomiasis on Serrambi beach, Ipojuca, State of Pernambuco.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The expansion of schistosomiasis to previously unaffected areas is being monitored by identifying new cases and georeferencing outbreaks of vector snails.
  
  
  METHODS
  In 2014, the Laboratório de Esquistossomose began an epidemiological survey in Serrambi and registered 2,574 people living there.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of these subjects, 1,414 (54.9%) underwent feces examination and 63 (4.5%) were diagnosed with Schistosoma mansoni infection. At this locality, seven breeding sites each were identified for Biomphalaria straminea and Biomphalaria glabrata. At two sites, B. glabrata were shedding cercariae.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Implementing preventive measures is necessary to avoid the establishment of schistosomiasis in yet another tourist locality, Pernambuco.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
authors.forename: Verônica Santos
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Barbosa
authors.affiliation: Instituto Evandro Chagas, Secretaria de Vigilância Sanitária, Ministério da Saúde, Ananindeua, Pará, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ricardo José de Paula Souza E
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Guimarães
authors.affiliation: Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
authors.forename: Rodrigo Moraes
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Loyo
authors.affiliation: Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
authors.forename: Silas
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Marcelino
authors.affiliation: Centro de Pesquisas Aggeu Magalhães, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
authors.forename: Constança Simões
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Barbosa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001700:Biomphalaria / Q000469:parasitology*; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004199:Disease Vectors; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055815:Young Adult