The effect of single dose ivermectin alone or in combination with albendazole on Wuchereria bancrofti infection in primary school children in Tanzania

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 462-472

  Simonsen, Paul E ^a   Magesa, Stephen M ^b   Dunyo, Samuel K ^c   Malecela Lazaro, Mwele N ^d   Michael, Edwin ^e  

^a DANISH BILHARZIASIS LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b Ubwari Research Station   (Tanzania)

^c MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Albendazole; Children; Ivermectin; Lymphatic filariasis; Tanzania; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; ELEPHANTIASIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FILARIASIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHILD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; FILARICIDES; HUMANS; IVERMECTIN; MALE; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

CELL FUSING AGENT VIRUS; WUCHERERIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 3242717093     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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