Duplex doppler sonographic assessment of the effects of diethylcarbamazine and albendazole therapy on adult filarial worms and adjacent host tissues in bancroftian filariasis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 471-477

  Hussein, Omar ^a   El Setouhy, Maged ^a   Ahmed, Ehab S ^b   Kandil, Amr M ^b   Ramzy, Reda M R ^b   Helmy, Hanan ^b   Weil, Gary J ^c  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EGYPT; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; HOST; HUMAN; HYDROCELE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMB; LYMPH VESSEL; MALE; MICROFILARIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCROTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

NEMATODA; WUCHERERIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 7644238654     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2004.71.471     Document Type: Article

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