Improvements in appetite and growth in helminth-infected schoolboys three and seven weeks after a single dose of pyrantel pamoate

Parasitology

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 497-504

  Hadju, V ^a,b   Stephenson, L S ^a,d   Abadi, K ^b   Mohammed, H O ^c   Bowman, D D ^c   Parker, R S ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b HASANUDDIN UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Appetite; Ascaris lumbricoides; Growth; Pyrantel pamoate; Schoolchildren

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PYRANTEL EMBONATE;

APPETITE; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN; INDONESIA; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

EID: 0029959487     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000081579     Document Type: Article

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