ACTs for schistosomiasis: Do they act?

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 579-581

  Utzinger, Jürg ^a   Tanner, Marcel ^a   Keiser, Jennifer ^a  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ARTESUNATE; ARTESUNATE PLUS MEFLOQUINE; BENFLUMETOL; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFALENE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

DRUG EFFICACY; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS HAEMATOBIA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL; CHILD; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; PRAZIQUANTEL; PYRIMETHAMINE; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

EID: 77955923957     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70169-9     Document Type: Letter

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