Antiparasite therapy;Terapéutica antiparasitaria

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 579-594+604

  Aparicio, Pilar ^a   Rodríguez, Esperanza ^b   Gárate, Teresa ^b   Molina, Ricardo ^b   Soto, Alicia ^a   Alvar, Jorge ^a  

^a Red de Investigación de Centros de Enfermedades Tropicales RICET Madrid   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arthropods; Chemotherapy; Helminths; Protozoa

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ATOVAQUONE PLUS PROGUANIL; BENZNIDAZOLE; CHLOROQUINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DILOXANIDE FUROATE; DOXYCYCLINE; FANSIDAR; FURAZOLIDONE; HALOFANTRINE; MEFLOQUINE; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; MELARSOPROL; MEPACRINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NIFURTIMOX; NITAZOXANIDE; PAROMOMYCIN; PENTAMIDINE; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUINIDINE GLUCONATE; QUININE FORMATE; SURAMIN; TETRACYCLINE; TINIDAZOLE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AMEBIASIS; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; CARDIOTOXICITY; CESTODIASIS; CONVULSION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SCREENING; ECTOPARASITE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETHARGY; LIVER TOXICITY; MALARIA; NAUSEA; NEMATODIASIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PARASITOSIS; PARESTHESIA; PLASMODIUM; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PROTOZOON; PRURITUS; PSYCHOSIS; PURPURA; RASH; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREMATODIASIS; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VACCINATION; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VECTOR CONTROL; VOMITING;

ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PARASITIC DISEASES;

EID: 0346726307     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13054552     Document Type: Review

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