Abstract
A 12 year-old boy in Germany developed urinary schistosomiasis in January 2014. He had bathed in rivers in south-eastern Corsica five months earlier. Before this case, human schistomiasis had not been reported on the island, although its vector, the snail Bulinus truncatus, locally transmitted the zoonotic Schistosoma bovis. The boy’s father excreted S. haematobium ova that were not viable; the boy’s three siblings had a positive serology against schistosomes.
Highlights
Schistosomiasis is endemic in in 78 countries of the tropical and subtropical world [1]
Similar cases among French tourists visiting the same sites in Corsica have been reported recently [3,4]
As the family had never travelled to known schistosomiasis-endemic areas, the most likely location for acquiring schistosomiasis was south-eastern Corsica, as supported by the French tourists who were presumably infected in the same area [3,4]
Summary
A 12 year-old boy in Germany developed urinary schistosomiasis in January 2014. He had bathed in rivers in south-eastern Corsica five months earlier. In January 2014, a 12 year-old German boy noticed painless excretion of bloody urine He was referred by his paediatrician to a nearby urological hospital where ultrasonography showed focal thickening of the bladder wall. Figure Ova of Schistosoma haematobium seen by microscopy of a microfiltrate of urine from a boy with urinary schistosomiasis, Germany, March 2014. Detailed history again confirmed that the boy and his family had never travelled outside Europe His most southerly travel was to Spain, where he had not bathed in surface fresh water, and southern France including south-eastern Corsica, where the boy had spent his holidays together with his family in August 2013 and bathed frequently in various rivers. The only place where the mother did not bathe together with her family was Cavu River
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