Schistosoma haematobium infections acquired in Corsica, France, August 2013

M C Holtfreter; H Moné; I Müller-Stöver; G Mouahid; J Richter

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.22.20821

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Schistosoma haematobium infections acquired in Corsica, France, August 2013
M C Holtfreter¹ , H Moné^2,3 , I Müller-Stöver¹ , G Mouahid^2,3 , J Richter¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Tropical Medicine Unit, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany ² Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions, UMR 5244, Université de Perpignan, Perpignan, France ³ Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Ecologie et Evolution des Interactions, Perpignan, France

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J Richter
Joachim.Richter med.uni-duesseldorf.de
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Citation style for this article: Holtfreter M C, Moné H, Müller-Stöver I, Mouahid G, Richter J. Schistosoma haematobium infections acquired in Corsica, France, August 2013 . Euro Surveill. 2014;19(22):pii=20821. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES2014.19.22.20821 Received: 27 May 2014

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Abstract

A 12 year-old boy in Germany developed urinary schistosomiasis in January 2014. He had bathed in rivers in south-eastern Corsica five months earlier. Before this case, human schistomiasis had not been reported on the island, although its vector, the snail Bulinus truncatus, locally transmitted the zoonotic Schistosoma bovis. The boy's father excreted S. haematobium ova that were not viable; the boy's three siblings had a positive serology against schistosomes. .