Effect of mefloquine administered orally at single, multiple, or combined with artemether, artesunate, or praziquantel in treatment of mice infected with Schistosoma japonicum

Parasitology Research

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 399-406

  Xiao, Shu Hua ^a   Mei, Jing Yan ^a   Jiao, Pei Ying ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; ARTESUNATE; MEFLOQUINE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; ARTEMISININS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; MEFLOQUINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PARASITIC SENSITIVITY TESTS; PRAZIQUANTEL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SCHISTOSOMICIDES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; ARTESUNATE; MUS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM;

EID: 79951770680     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-2080-y     Document Type: Article

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