Authors: Forsyth DM MacDonald G
Publish Date: 1965/03/01
Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-178
Abstract
DM Forsyth G MacDonald Urological complications of endemic schistosomiasis in schoolchildren Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Volume 59 Issue 2 March 1965 Pages 171–178 https//doiorg/101016/0035920365900787An account is given of the effects produced by endemic urinary schistosomiasis upon the children attending different schools in the Mwanza Region of Tanzania At Usagara where the incidence of infection rises to become 100 in the children of standard 4 up to 37 of the standard 6 pupils have irreversible lesions of the urinary tract Nearby where infection is less prevalent there is a coincident decrease in lesions of the urinary tractIt is firmly established that the lesions—calcified bladder deformity of the ureter and hydronephrosis—are due to schistosomiasis and that their prevalence is related to the weight of infection Lesions occur even in the youngest examined aged 6 but the prevalence of deformity of the ureter probably increases with age There is a very marked and significant difference between boys and girls hydronephrosis being much rarer in girls but other lesions are equally common
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