Five-year impact of repeated praziquantel treatment on subclinical morbidity due to Schistosoma japonicum in China

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 438-443

  Li, Y S ^a,b   Sleigh, A C ^a   Li, Y ^b   Tanner, M ^c   Dessein, A ^d   Williams, G M ^a   McManus, Don M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b HUNAN INSTITUTE OF PARASITIC DISEASES   (China)

^c SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; China; Morbidity; Praziquantel; Re infection; Schistosoma japonicum; Schistosomiasis; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PRAZIQUANTEL; ANTISCHISTOSOMAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; LAKE; LIVER FIBROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARSH; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PORTAL VEIN; PREVALENCE; REINFECTION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VEIN DILATATION; WORM EGG; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; FECES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITIC LIVER DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; SPLENOMEGALY;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; TREMATODA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SCHISTOSOMICIDES; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0036651857     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90386-X     Document Type: Article

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