Fact sheets
The Department of Health, Western Australia, does not produce fact sheets on this topic.
Public Health action
Notifiable disease data and reports
Additional sources of information
Exclusion
Cases: exclude until diarrhoea has ceased from food handling, school, pre-school and child care centres.
Contacts: do not exclude
Case definition
Only confirmed cases should be notified
A confirmed case requires laboratory definitive evidence +/- clinical evidence
AND
epidemiological evidence
Laboratory definitive evidence
Demonstration of the ova of Schistosoma species in urine, faeces or tissue specimen;
OR
Positive Schistosomal antibodies in a patient with clinical evidence of schistosomiasis; and a clinical history of likely exposure.
