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Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz., suppl 1(93), p. 265-266, 1998
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761998000700049
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Urban schistosomiasis in Itamaracá Island, Pernambuco, Brazil: epidemiological factors involved in the recent endemic process
Journal article published in 1998 by
Barbosa,C Simões,
Gonçalves,JF,
C. Simões Barbosa 
,
Jf F. Gonçalves,
Y. Albuquerque,
Albuquerque,Y,
Fs S. Barbosa,
Barbosa,FS
,
Jf F. Gonçalves,
Y. Albuquerque,
Albuquerque,Y,
Fs S. Barbosa,
Barbosa,FS
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Abstract
Schistosomiasis has been considered as a rural endemic disease. In the State of Pernambuco, migratory human movements from endemic areas to urban ones with precarious sanitary and environmental conditions, is being pointed out as responsible for expansion and transmission of schistosomiasis.