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 |