Acute pulmonary schistosomiasis

Abstract

Acute pulmonary schistosomiasis affects non-immune individuals returning from endemic areas. Pathogenesis is not well understood. We report a case of acute pulmonary schistosomiasis in which lung biopsy was done 10 weeks after exposure and it identified the presence of schistosomal ovum surrounded by granuloma.

Keywords

• Acute schistosomiasis
• Pulmonary eosinophilia
• Pulmonary schistosomiasis
• Schistosomiasis