Autochthonous Human Schistosomiasis, Malaysia
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Technical Appendix Technical Appendix Figure 1. Places of residence in Peninsular Malaysia (left) of the schistosomiasis-infected Orang Asli from the 1970s. The origin of the patient from the current report is marked with a red X in a circle; previous cases are marked with green Xs without circles. Three cases in persons also infected with Schistosoma japonicum–like eggs in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (right), were immigrants and thus not considered autochthonous.
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