Performance and Safety of Praziquantel for Treatment of Intestinal Schistosomiasis in Infants and Preschool Children

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Sousa Figueiredo, José C ^a,b   Betson, Martha ^a   Atuhaire, Aaron ^c   Arinaitwe, Moses ^c   Navaratnam, Annalan M D ^d   Kabatereine, Narcis B ^c   Bickle, Quentin ^b   Stothard, J Russell ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALB; ALBENDAZOLE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; LONART; PARACETAMOL; PRAZIQUANTEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SCHOOL CHILD; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SWEATING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URTICARIA; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG TOXICITY; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PRAZIQUANTEL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UGANDA;

EID: 84869001464     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001864     Document Type: Article

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