The combination of three faecal parasitological methods to improve the diagnosis of schistosomiasis mansoni in a low endemic setting in the state of Ceará, Brazil  Marta Cristhiany Cunha Pinheiro; Teiliane Rodrigues Carneiro; Ana Lúcia de Paula Hanemann; Sara Menezes de Oliveira; Fernando Schemelzer Moraes Bezerra PAGE: 873-876 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000700006

Polymerase chain reaction for the evaluation of Schistosoma mansoni infection in two low endemicity areas of Minas Gerais, Brazil  Gabriel Costa de Carvalho; Letícia Helena dos Santos Marques; Luciana Inácia Gomes; Ana Rabello; Luiz Cláudio Ribeiro; Kezia Katiane Gorza Scopel; Sandra Helena Cerrato Tibiriçá; Elaine Soares Coimbra; Clarice Abramo PAGE: 899-902 | DOI: 10.1590/S0074-02762012000700010

A conventional polymerase chain reaction-based method for the diagnosis of human schistosomiasis in stool samples from individuals in a low-endemicity area Teiliane Rodrigues Carneiro, Regina Helena Saramago Peralta, Marta Cristhiany Cunha Pinheiro, Sara Menezes de Oliveira, José Mauro Peralta, Fernando Schemelzer Moraes Bezerra PAGE: 1037-1044 | DOI: 10.1590/0074-0276130202