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. 2020 Oct 22;7:553487. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2020.553487

Table 3.

Clinical features of 78 imported cases of schistosomiasis mansoni in China from 1979 to 2019.

Features Symptoms and signs Number of positive cases Percentage (%)
Clinical manifestation Weakness 52 66.67
Fever 46 58.97
Diarrhea 43 55.12
Abdominal pain 30 38.46
Mucous and bloody stool 19 24.36
Sweating 15 19.23
No symptoms 3 3.85
Physical examination Hepatomegaly 45 57.69
Splenomegaly with moderate stiffness 10 12.82
Symptoms of the nervous system 2 2.56
Rash 1 1.28
Laboratory tests Eosinophilia 71 91.03
Positive fecal occult blood test 2 2.56
Imaging features Diffuse miliary nodule shadows in both lungs, hepatic cirrhosis, splenomegaly, sigmoid colon and rectum wall thickening 1 1.28
Definitive diagnosis Identification of Schistosoma mansoni eggs in stool samples or miracidia hatched from stool samples 69 88.46
Detection of Schistosoma mansoni eggs using rectal mucosal biopsy 11 14.10