Schistosomiasis in non-endemic areas: Italian consensus recommendations for screening, diagnosis and management by the Italian Society of Tropical Medicine and Global Health (SIMET), endorsed by the Committee for the Study of Parasitology of the Italian Association of Clinical Microbiologists (CoSP-AMCLI), the Italian Society of Parasitology (SoIPa), the Italian Society of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy (SIGE), the Italian Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (SIGO), the Italian Society of Colposcopy and Cervico-Vaginal Pathology (SICPCV), the Italian Society of General Medicine and Primary Care (SIMG), the Italian Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (SIMIT), the Italian Society of Pediatrics (SIP), the Italian Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (SITIP), the Italian Society of Urology (SIU)
Agnese Comelli, Camilla Genovese, Federico Gobbi, Gaetano Brindicci, Susanna Capone, Angela Corpolongo, Verena Crosato, Valentina Mangano, Rosalia Marrone, Maria Merelli, Marco Prato, Carmen Rita Santoro, Salvatore Scarso, Elisa Vanino, Valentina Marchese, Spinello Antinori, Claudio Maria Mastroianni, Annibale Raglio, Fabrizio Bruschi, Andrea Minervini, Daniele Donà, Silvia Garazzino, Luisa Galli, Andrea Lo Vecchio, Andrea Galli, Gabriele Dragoni, Claudio Cricelli, Nicola Colacurci, E. Ferrazzi, Annalisa Pieralli, Antonio Montresor, Joachim Richter, Guido Calleri, Alessandro Bartoloni, Lorenzo Zammarchi
Abstract
Human schistosomiasis is a chronic parasitic disease caused by trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma . It affects people living in tropical and subtropical regions where approximately 780 million people are at risk[ 1 ].