Sustainability of soil-transmitted helminth control following a single-dose co-administration of albendazole and diethylcarbamazine

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 355-359

  Rajendran, R ^a   Mani, T R ^a   Munirathinam, A ^a   Sunish, I P ^a   Abdullah, S Md ^b   Augustin, D J ^b   Satyanarayana, K ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Government of Tamil Nadu   (India)

Author keywords

Albendazole; Control; Diethylcarbamazine; India; Mass drug administration; Schoolchildren; Soil transmitted helminths

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DIZZINESS; FECES ANALYSIS; FEVER; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOIL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VOMITING;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; CHILD; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FECES; FEMALE; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOIL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

VERMES;

EID: 3242664796     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)90168-4     Document Type: Article

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