Assessment of the anthelmintic efficacy of albendazole in school children in seven countries where soil-transmitted helminths are endemic

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Vercruysse, Jozef ^a   Behnke, Jerzy M ^b   Albonico, Marco ^c   Ame, Shaali Makame ^c   Angebault, Cécile ^d   Bethony, Jeffrey M ^e   Engels, Dirk ^f   Guillard, Bertrand ^d   Hoa, Nguyen Thi Viet ^g   Kang, Gagandeep ^h   Kattula, Deepthi ^h   Kotze, Andrew C ⁱ   McCarthy, James S ^j   Mekonnen, Zeleke ^k   Montresor, Antonio ^f   Periago, Maria Victoria ^e   Sumo, Laurentine ^l   Tchuenté, Louis Albert Tchuem ^l   Thach, Dang Thi Cam ^g   Zeynudin, Ahmed ^k   Levecke, Bruno ^a   more..

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Pemba Public Health Laboratory   (Tanzania)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR DU CAMBODGE   (Cambodia)

^e INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^f WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^g National Institute for Malariology   (Viet Nam)

^h CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

ⁱ CSIRO   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^k JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^l UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BRAZIL; CAMBODIA; CAMEROON; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ETHIOPIA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TANZANIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; VIET NAM; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMAL; DRUG THERAPY; FECES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SCHOOL; STANDARD; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ALBENDAZOLE; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NECATOR AMERICANUS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 79953776410     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000948     Document Type: Article

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