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Schistosomiasis and liver disease: Learning from the past to understand the present

Eman Abdelghani, Rommel Zerpa, Gloria Iliescu, Carmen P. Escalante

Clinical Case Reports · 2020 · 13 citations · 8 references

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To diagnose schistosomiasis, past medical history review should include recent travel to or from an endemic area, a history of elevated liver enzymes as well as contact with contaminated sources of water or farm animals.

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