A clinical and radiological picture of bronchopneumonia was observed in a patient between the second and third weeks post-infection with cercariae of S. mansoni. There was a spontaneous recovery without sequelae in 20 days and the clinical and radiological alterations were interpreted as associated with the passage of schistosomulae through the lungs.
Pulmonary schistosomiasis; Bronchopneumonitis and schistosomulae; Pre-postural schistosomiasis; Lung and schistosomulae