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Artigos • Cad. Saúde Pública 13 (2) • Apr 1997 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-311X1997000200014   copy

Schistosomiasis mansoni occurrence in urban territory. 1. A case study of a peripheral urban area in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

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This article characterizes the etiological conditions for schistosomiasis mansoni in the urban portion of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Knowledge about this endemic disease is discussed with a clinical focus on subjects who lived in endemic areas from 1946 to 1994, taking into account the specific indicators for the endemic disease according to the measures adopted in its control.

Schistosomiasis; Urbanization; Schistosoma mansoni; Epidemiology; Public Health

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