“…After egg laying, the importance of lung involvement has been described by many authors in different countries (Sami 1951, Bogliolo 1964, Gelfand 1966, Rocha et al 1995a, Cooke et al 1999, N'Goran 2003. Bogliolo (1964), during autopsy of four patients who died during the acute phase of schistosomiasis, found a miliary distribution of eggs in the lungs of three and one had pleural effusion.…”