Usefulness of pumpkin seeds combined with areca nut extract in community-based treatment of human taeniasis in northwest Sichuan Province, China

Acta Tropica

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 152-157

  Li, Tiaoying ^a   Ito, Akira ^b   Chen, Xingwang ^a   Long, Changping ^c   Okamoto, Munehiro ^d   Raoul, Francis ^e   Giraudoux, Patrick ^e   Yanagida, Tetsuya ^b   Nakao, Minoru ^b   Sako, Yasuhito ^b   Xiao, Ning ^a   Craig, Philip S ^f  

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

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c Ganzi Tibetan Prefecture   (China)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Areca nut; Carrier; Cure rate; Pumpkin seed; Taeniasis; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BETEL EXTRACT; HERBACEOUS AGENT;

DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG PRESCRIBING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUT; PARASITIC DISEASE; PLANT EXTRACT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEED;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BETEL NUT; CHILD; CHINA; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MONOTHERAPY; MORNING DOSAGE; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SQUASH; TAENIASIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WORM EXPULSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ARECA; CHILD; CHINA; CUCURBITA; DIZZINESS; DRUG SYNERGISM; DRUG TOXICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PLANT EXTRACTS; SEEDS; TAENIA; TAENIASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

CHINA; SICHUAN;

ANIMALIA; ARECA CATECHU; CESTODA; TAENIA;

EID: 84865738574     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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