Combination chemotherapy against Clonorchis sinensis: Experiments with artemether, artesunate, OZ78, praziquantel, and tribendimidine in a rat model

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3770-3776

  Keiser, Jennifer ^a   Xiao, Shu Hua ^b   Smith, Thomas A ^a   Utzinger, Jürg ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITREMATODAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTESUNATE; OZ 78; PRAZIQUANTEL; TRIBENDIMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLONORCHIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADAMANTANE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ARTEMISININS; CLONORCHIASIS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; FEMALE; PHENYLENEDIAMINES; PRAZIQUANTEL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 70349147405     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00452-09     Document Type: Article

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