A double-blind controlled field trial of doxycycline and albendazole in combination for the treatment of bancroftian filariasis in India

Acta Tropica

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 150-156

  Gayen, Prajna ^a   Nayak, Ananya ^a   Saini, Prasanta ^a   Mukherjee, Niladri ^a   Maitra, Sudipta ^a   Sarkar, Prasanta ^b   Sinha Babu, Santi P ^a  

^a VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Bolpur Sub Divisional Hospital   (India)

Author keywords

Lymphatic filariasis; Macrofilaricide; Microfilaria; Wolbachia; Wuchereria bancrofti

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; DOXYCYCLINE; PLACEBO;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TREATMENT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRUG PRESCRIBING; DRUG RESISTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILARIASIS;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; BANCROFTIAN FILARIASIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTRACELLULAR BACTERIUM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFILARIA (NEMATODE LARVA); MICROFILARIASIS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL LOAD; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE LOAD; TIME FACTORS; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; YOUNG ADULT;

INDIA; WEST BENGAL;

ENDOBACTERIA; WOLBACHIA; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI;

EID: 84870664784     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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