Tribendimidine: An alternative anthelmintic for liver flukes?

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 77-78

  Sripa, Banchob ^a   Hong, Sung Tae ^b  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; ARTESUNATE; ARTESUNATE PLUS MEFLOQUINE; LEVAMISOLE; MEFLOQUINE; PRAZIQUANTEL; TRIBENDIMIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; CESTODE; CHINA; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; FOOD POISONING; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CANCER; MORBIDITY; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIASIS; PLUS MEFLOQUINE; OPISTHORCHIS VIVERRINI; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; HUMANS; LAOS; OPISTHORCHIASIS; OPISTHORCHIS; PHENYLENEDIAMINES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751702786     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70289-9     Document Type: Letter

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