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Clinical Patterns in Urinary Schistosomiasis

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Bilharziasis is of immense antiquity and the clinical signs, symptoms and syndromes attributed to the infection are almost as protean as the papyri, parchments and papers on the subject. The present account is based on personal experience of urinary schistosomiasis in Kuwait and in Tanzania.

Formerly: Bilharzia Research Unit, The Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

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  1. D. M. Forsyth

    Present address: Bilharzia Research Unit, The Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene, London, W. C. 1, England

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    1. Division of Special and General Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and Veterans Administration Central Laboratory for Anatomic Pathology and Research, Washington, D. C., USA

      F. K. Mostofi M.D. (Chief, Clinical Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Secretary- Treasurer) (Chief, Clinical Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Secretary- Treasurer)

    2. Georgetown Medical School, Washington, D. C., USA

      F. K. Mostofi M.D. (Chief, Clinical Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Secretary- Treasurer) (Chief, Clinical Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Secretary- Treasurer)

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      F. K. Mostofi M.D. (Chief, Clinical Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Secretary- Treasurer) (Chief, Clinical Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Secretary- Treasurer)

    4. International Academy of Pathology, Washington, D. C., USA

      F. K. Mostofi M.D. (Chief, Clinical Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Secretary- Treasurer) (Chief, Clinical Professor of Pathology, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Secretary- Treasurer)

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    Forsyth, D.M. (1967). Clinical Patterns in Urinary Schistosomiasis. In: Mostofi, F.K. (eds) Bilharziasis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49777-3_10

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