Cysteine proteinases from papaya (Carica papaya) in the treatment of experimental Trichuris suis infection in pigs: Two randomized controlled trials

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Levecke, Bruno ^a   Buttle, David J ^b   Behnke, Jerzy M ^c   Duce, Ian R ^c   Vercruysse, Jozef ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cysteine proteinases; Egg reduction rate; Ethno medicine; Papaya; Soil transmitted helminths; Trichuris; Worm reduction rate

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; PAPAYA CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTHELMINTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; PAPAYA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS SUIS; WORM EGG; ANIMAL; CARICA; ENZYMOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRICHURIS; VETERINARY;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CARICA PAPAYA; SUIDAE; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS SUIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ALBENDAZOLE; ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; CARICA; CYSTEINE PROTEASES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; PLANT PROTEINS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 84902242797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-255     Document Type: Article

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