Preventing confusion about side effects in a campaign to eliminate lymphatic filariasis

Trends in Parasitology

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 307-308

  Ramaiah, Kapa D ^a   Ravi, Rengachari ^a   Das, Pradeep K ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFILARIAL AGENT; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEVER; FILARIASIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDIA; LETTER; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PAIN; SIDE EFFECT; STOMACH PAIN; VOMITING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION;

EID: 20444370953     PISSN: 14714922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pt.2005.05.015     Document Type: Letter

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