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The Laboratory Diagnosis of Bilharziasis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

W. K. Blackie
Affiliation:
Physician, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia

Extract

Bilharziasis is unquestionably one of the major parasitic diseases of Southern Africa where both the urinary and intestinal forms occur. When it presents in the classical form, the diagnosis either from the clinical or laboratory viewpoint is seldom a major problem; but when, as so often happens, the presenting features have little in common with the accepted text-book descriptions of the disease, diagnosis becomes a matter of considerable difficulty.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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