Short report: Intra-cystic drug concentration of albendazole sulphoxide in patients with Echinococcus granulosus cysts

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 712-713

  Capan, Mesküre ^a,b   Keltner, Sebastian ^a   Thalhammer, Florian ^a   Winkler, Stefan ^a   Jäger, Walter ^c   Zeitlinger, Markus ^a   Ramharter, Michael ^a,b,d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d Karl Landsteiner Gesellschaft Infektiologie ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ALBENDAZOLE SULFOXIDE; ANTICESTODAL AGENT; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CYST; CYST FLUID; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG TARGETING; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG HYDATID CYST; MUSCLE CYST; ANIMAL; LIVER HYDATID CYST; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED;

ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS;

ADULT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTICESTODAL AGENTS; CYSTS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 70349745570     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.09-0234     Document Type: Article

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