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Volume 21, Number 10—October 2015
Letter

Schistosomiasis Screening of Travelers from Italy with Possible Exposure in Corsica, France

Anna BeltrameComments to Author , Lorenzo Zammarchi, Gianluca Zuglian, Federico Gobbi, Andrea Angheben, Valentina Marchese, Monica Degani, Antonia Mantella, Leila Bianchi, Carlotta Montagnani, Luisa Galli, Matteo Bassetti, Alessandro Bartoloni, and Zeno Bisoffi
Author affiliations: Santa Maria Misericordia University Hospital of Udine, Udine, Italy (A. Beltrame, G. Zuglian, M. Bassetti); Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Italy (A. Beltrame, F. Gobbi, A. Angheben, V. Marchese, M. Degani, Z. Bisoffi); University of Florence School of Medicine, Florence, Italy (L. Zammarchi, A. Mantella, A. Bartoloni); Anna Meyer Children's University Hospital, Florence, Italy (L. Bianchi, C. Montagnani, L. Galli)

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Table

Demographic, epidemiologic, clinical, and laboratory data for 15 patients with urogenital schistosomiasis acquired after bathing in the Cavu River, Corsica, France*

Patient age, y/sex Year exposed Previous symptoms Eosinophils, cells/μL† No. samples tested for ova ELISA‡ IFAT WB§ Infection definition
12/M 2012 Urgency to urinate 210 3 Neg Neg: T1, T2 ND Neg: WB1, WB2 Possible
12/M 2012 None 550 3 Neg Neg: T1, T2 ND Neg: WB1, WB2 Possible
68/M 2012 Acute prostatitis 190 3 Neg Neg: T1, T2 ND Neg: WB1, WB2 Possible
5/M 2011, 2012, 2013 None 560 3 Neg Neg: T2 ND Neg: WB1, WB2 Possible
64/M 1990–2013 Macroscopic hematuria, hematospermia 140 1 Neg Pos: T1; Neg: T2 ND Neg: WB1, WB2 Probable
57/M 1997, 1998, 2006–2014 None ND 1 Neg Neg: T1, T2 ND Neg: WB1, WB2 Possible
58/F 1997, 1998, 2006–2014 Macroscopic hematuria 1,540 1 Neg Pos: T1; Neg: T2 ND Neg: WB1, WB2 Probable
37/M 2013 None 380 1 Neg ND Neg Neg: WB1; Pos: WB2 Confirmed
54/M 2011 None 110 1 Neg ND Neg Neg: WB1; Pos: WB2 Confirmed
60/F 2014 None 190 1 Neg ND Neg Neg: WB1; Pos: WB2 Confirmed
58/M 2011, 2012, 2013 None 400 1 Neg ND Neg Neg: WB1; Pos: WB2 Confirmed
11/F 2011, 2012, 2013 Vaginal discharge 500 3 Neg ND Neg Neg: WB1; Pos: WB2 Confirmed
39/M 1980–2013 Urolithiasis 40 3 Neg ND Neg Neg: WB1, WB2 Possible
29/M 2014 Hematospermia 130 4 Neg ND Neg Neg: WB1, WB2 Possible
10/M 2011 None 437 1 Neg ND Neg Neg: WB1, WB2 Possible

*Only 1 patient, the 10-year-old male, had microscopic hematuria. IIFAT, indirect immunofluorescent antibody test; ND, not done; Neg, negative; Pos, positive; WB, Western blot.
†Absolute cell count.
‡T1 indicates the ELISA used in Udine and Brescia, Italy, and T2 indicates the ELISA used in Negrar, Italy.
§WB1 contained Schistosomiasis mansoni soluble antigens; WB2 contained S. haematobium plus S. mansoni soluble antigens.

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