The safety and efficacy of amocarzine in African onchocerciasis and the influence of ivermectin on the clinical and parasitological response to treatment

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 281-296

  Awadzi, K ^a   Opoku, N O ^a   Attah, S K ^a   Addy, E T ^a   Duke, B O L ^b   Nyame, P K ^c   Kshirsagar, N A ^d  

^a Hohoe Hospital   (Ghana)

^b River Blindness Foundation   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^d KEM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOCARZINE; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; IVERMECTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; FOREST; GHANA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIA; NYSTAGMUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRURITUS; RASH; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN NODULE; VERTIGO;

EID: 0030922538     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1997.11813141     Document Type: Article

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