Effectiveness of Two Rounds of Mass Drug Administration Using DEC Combined with Albendazole on the Prevalence of Brugia Malayi [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Filariasis mass drug administration carried out for 5 consecutive years aims to reduce the prevalence rate of < 1%. Evaluation of treatment needs to be done, one of them with a finger blood survey.
Oktarina, R. (Reni) +3 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2015 Background With ambitious targets to eliminate lymphatic filariasis over the coming years, there is a need to identify optimal strategies to achieve them in areas with different baseline prevalence and stages of control.
M. A. Irvine +6 more
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Pharmacokinetics, safety, and efficacy of a single co-administered dose of diethylcarbamazine, albendazole and ivermectin in adults with and without Wuchereria bancrofti infection in Cote d\u27Ivoire [PDF]
, 2019 BackgroundA single co-administered dose of ivermectin (IVM) plus diethylcarbamazine (DEC) plus albendazole (ALB), or triple-drug therapy, was recently found to be more effective for clearing microfilariae (Mf) than standard DEC plus ALB currently used ...
Bjerum, Catherine M +9 more
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Universa Medicina, 2016 Backgroud. Mass drug administration (MDA) has been one of the strategies for lymphatic filariasis elimination. Since the start of implementation in 2011 in Pekalongan, no study on MDA acceptability has yet been done.
Tutik Ida Rosanti +2 more
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New approaches to measuring anthelminthic drug efficacy: parasitological responses of childhood schistosome infections to treatment with praziquantel [PDF]
, 2015 By 2020, the global health community aims to control and eliminate human helminthiases, including schistosomiasis in selected African countries, principally by preventive chemotherapy (PCT) through mass drug administration (MDA) of anthelminthics ...
A Danso-Appiah +75 more
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Human schistosomiasis in the post mass drug administration era [PDF]
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2017 Profound changes are occurring in the epidemiology of schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease caused by a chronic infection with parasitic helminths of the genus Schistosoma. Schistosomiasis currently affects 240 million people worldwide, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa. The advent and proliferation of mass drug administration (MDA) programmes using
Mutapi, Frances +3 more
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Neglected tropical diseases in the genomics era: re-evaluating the impact of new drugs and mass drug administration. [PDF]
, 2016 Simon Croft answers Genome Biology's questions on ways to approach neglected tropical diseases in the genomics era, including re-evaluating the impact of new drugs and mass drug ...
Croft, Simon L
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Global Health Research and Policy, 2023 Background Studies on Mass drug administration (MDA) in Ghana targeting various diseases, have mostly focused on factors that affect coverage and compliance to MDA with limited focus on evidence regarding awareness and community perception of the program.
Francis Adjei Osei +16 more
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Finasteride adverse effects and post-finasteride syndrome; implications for dentists [PDF]
, 2016 Finasteride is a 5α-reductase inhibitor widely used in present in the therapeutic approach of androgenic alopecia. Adverse effects consist in variable sign and symptoms, the most common being represented by mental troubles (reduced feeling of life ...
Dumitriu, Anca Silvia +7 more
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, 2015 Mass campaigns with antimalarial drugs are potentially a powerful tool for local elimination of malaria, yet current diagnostic technologies are insufficiently sensitive to identify all individuals who harbor infections.
Bever, Caitlin A. +5 more
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