Assessment of combined ivermectin and albendazole for treatment of intestinal helminth and Wuchereria bancrofti infections in Haitian schoolchildren

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 479-486

  Beach, Michael J ^a   Streit, Thomas G ^b   Addiss, David G ^a   Prospere, Rosette ^c   Roberts, Jacquelin M ^a   Lammie, Patrick J ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c Hospital Ste Croix ^*  (Haïti)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ASCORBIC ACID; GENERIC DRUG; IVERMECTIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HAITI; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS; NEMATODA; TRICHURIS; VERMES; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0032930060     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1999.60.479     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Ottesen EA, Duke BOL, Karam M, Behbehani K, 1997. Strategies and tools for the control/elimination of lymphatic filariasis. Bull World Health Organ 75: 491-503.
2. Michael E, Bundy DAP, Grenfell BT, 1996. Re-assessing the global prevalence and distribution of lymphatic filariasis. Parasitology 112: 409-428.
3. Chadokewitz J, 1995. Ivermectin and lymphatic filariasis: A clinical update. Parasitol Today 11: 233-235.
4. Chan MS, Medley GF, Jamison D, Bundy DAP, 1994. The evaluation of potential global morbidity attributable to intestinal nematode infections. Parasitiology 109: 373-387.
5. Strickland GT, ed, 1991. Hunter's Tropical Medicine. Seventh edition. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co.
6. Stephenson LS, Latham MC, Kurz KM, Kinoti SN, Brigham H, 1989. Treatment with a single dose of albendazole improves growth of Kenyan schoolchildren with hookworm, Trichuris trichiura, and Ascaris lumbricoides infections. Am J Trop Med Hyg 41: 78-87.
7. Stephenson LS, Latham MC, Adams EJ, Kinoti SN, Pertet A, 1993. Physical fitness, growth and appetite of Kenyan school boys with hookworm, Trichuris trichiura, and Ascaris lumbricoides infections are improved four months after a single dose of albendazole. J Nutr 123: 1036-1046.
8. Thein-Hlaing, Thane-Toe, Than-Saw, Myat-Lay-Kyin, Myint-Lwin, 1991. A controlled chemotherapeutic intervention trial on the relationship between Ascaris lumbricoides infection and malnutrition in children. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 85: 523-528.
9. Cooper ES, Duff EMW, Howell S, Bundy DAP, 1995. 'Catch-up' growth velocities after treatment for Trichuris dysentery syndrome. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 89: 653.
10. Hadju V, Stephenson LS, Abadi K, Mohammed HO, Bowman DD, Parker RS, 1996. Improvements in appetite and growth in helminth-infected schoolboys three and seven weeks after a single dose of pyrantel pamoate. Parasitology 113: 497-504.
11. Nokes C, Grantham-McGregor SM, Sawyer AW, Cooper ES, Robinson BA, Bundy DAP, 1992. Moderate to heavy infections of Trichuris trichiura affect cognitive function in Jamaican school children. Parasitology 104: 539-547.
12. World Health Organization. 1992. Health of School Children: Treatment of Intestinal Helminths and Schistosomiasis. Geneva: WHO.
13. Eberhard ML, Lammie PJ, 1991. Laboratory diagnosis of filariasis. Clin Lab Med 11: 977-1010.
14. Drugs for parasitic infections, 1998. Med Lett 40: 1-12.
15. Garcia LS, Bruckner DA, 1997. Diagnostic Medical Parasitology. Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology Press.
16. World Health Organization. 1981. Field Studies on the Relation between Intestinal Infections and Human Nutrition. Geneva: WHO (NUT/81.3 PDP/82.4).
17. World Health Organization, 1987. Prevention and control of intestinal parasitic infections. World Health Organ Tech Rep Ser 749.
18. Zar, JH, 1974. Biostatistical Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
19. Sato, Y. Kobayashi J, Toma H, Shiroma Y, 1995. Efficacy of stool examination for detection of Strongloides infection. Am J Trop Med Hyg 53: 248-250.
20. Addiss DG, Beach MJ, Streit TG, Lutwick S, LeConte FH, Lafontant JG, Hightower AW, Lammie PJ, 1997. Randomized placebo-controlled comparison of ivermectin and albendazole alone and in combination for Wuchereria bancrofti microfilaremia in Haitian children. Lancet 350: 480-484.
21. World Health Organization, 1996. Report of the WHO Informal Consultation on the Use of Chemotherapy for the Control of Morbidity Due to Soil-Transmitted Nematodes in Humans. April 29 to May 1. Geneva: WHO (WHO/CTD/SIP 96.2).
22. The World Bank, 1993. World Development Report 1993: Investing in Health. New York: Oxford University Press.
23. Meinking TL, Taplin D, Hermida JL, Pardo R, Kerdel FA, 1995. The treatment of scabies with ivermectin. N Engl J Med 333: 26-30.
24. Ismail MM, Jayakody RL, Weil GJ, Nirmalan N, Jayasinghe KSA, Abeyewickrema W, Sheriff MHR, Rajaratnam HN, Amarasekera N, de Silva DCL, Michalski ML, Dissanaike AS, 1998. Efficacy of single dose combinations of albendazole, ivermectin and diethylcarbamazine for the treatment of bancroftian filariasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 92: 94-97.
25. Forrester JE, Bailar JC III, Esrey SA, Jose MV, Castillejos BT, Ocampo G, 1998. Randomized trial of albendazole and pyrantel in symptomless trichuriasis in children. Lancet 352: 1103-1108.
26. Beach MJ, Addiss DG, Roberts JM, Lammie PJ, 1999. Treatment of Trichuris infection with albendazole. Lancet 353: 237-238.