| urinary schistosomiasis in nebraska. | urinary schistosomiasis, a disease caused by the blood fluke schistosoma haematobium, is seen in residents of endemic areas of africa and southwest asia. two cases are described, one in a twelve year old boy and another in a forty-four year old man. this type of infection is often indolent but can have significant long-term sequelae such as urinary obstruction and bladder cancer. the recent increases in u.s. immigration of persons from the areas endemic to schistosomiasis behoove physicians to r ... | 1995 | 7566250 |