Tolerance to diethylcarbamazine-medicated salt in individuals infected with Onchocerca volvulus

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 444-448

  Meyrowitsch, D W ^a   Simonsen, P E ^a   Magnussen, P ^a  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Adverse reactions; Clinical trial; Diethylcarbamazine; Filariasis; Medicated salt; Onchocerca volvulus; Onchocerciasis; Tanzania; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; IVERMECTIN; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROFILARIASIS; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; TANZANIA; VERTIGO; VOMITING; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 0033846259     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(00)90136-6     Document Type: Article

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