Worms, Slugs and Humans: The Medical and Popular Construction of an Emerging Infectious Disease (2011)
Grisotti, Márcia (Author)
Avila-Pires, Fernando Dias de (Author)
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 18, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 877-892
The identification of the worm Angiostrongylus costaricensis parasitizing land snails and humans in Southern Brazil suggests under-diagnosis and under-notification of patients with abdominal angiostrongyliasis. This article analyzes how the concept of abdominal angiostrongyliasis was constructed in different ways in Costa Rica and Brazil and how these changes affected the understanding of its clinical and epidemiological diagnosis. The research shows that abdominal angiostrongyliasis is, de facto, a sociocultural construct, although the parasites and vectors are real. The analisys also shows the importance of an interdisciplinary approach for understanding disease.
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