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Study of Schistosoma mansoni isolates from patients with failure of treatment with oxamniquine
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2000 After three successive treatments with oxamniquine the continuing elimination of Schistosoma mansoni eggs was observed in patients, who came from various regions of Brazil, with different clinical forms of schistosomiasis.
Maria José Conceição +2 more
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Evaluation of Lethal Giant Larvae as a Schistosomiasis Vaccine Candidate
BioMed Research International, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016., 2016 Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease of humans, and it is considered to be the second most devastating parasitic disease after malaria. Eggs produced by normally developed female worms are important in the transmission of the parasite, and they responsible for the pathogenesis of schistosomiasis. The tumor suppressor gene lethal giant larvae
Yufan Cao +9 more
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 1-383, 2016., 2016 This review evaluates the effects of mass deworming for soil‐transmitted helminths on growth, educational achievement, cognition, school attendance, quality of life and adverse effects in children in endemic helminth areas. Mass deworming for soil‐transmitted helminths probably has little to no effect on weight, height, school attendance, cognition ...
Vivian A. Welch +14 more
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1984 Em estudo duplo-cego observou-se que as alterações radiológicaspulmonares após tratamento com oxamniquine de pacientes com esquistossomose mansoni crônica associam-se com a presença de eosinófilos no escarro (pIn a double-blind study, thepost-oxamniquine
Ênio Roberto Pietra Pedroso +6 more
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Esquistossomose mansoni: tratamento medicamentoso Schistosomiasis mansoni: drug therapeutic
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1992 It is the specific treatment of mansoni schistosomiasis that aims to act directed on the parasite, through chemotherapy. Constitutes fundamental indication to the treatment of schistosomiasis active forms, that is, these determined by the presence of ...
Aloisio Sales da Cunha
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Schistosomiasis‐Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
Pulmonary Circulation, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 596-611, December 2014., 2014 Schistosomiasis, a parasite‐borne disease, is highly prevalent in Africa and Asia; it is estimated that close to 20 million people worldwide have a severe form of the disease. The chronic form can affect the gastrointestinal system and lead to hepatosplenic disease, and it may cause cardiopulmonary complications, including pulmonary hypertension.
Demosthenes G. Papamatheakis +3 more
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1997 A strain of Schistosoma mansoni (R1) was isolated from patient previously submitted to four treatments with oxamniquine, and to another one with praziquantel. The results obtained with chemotherapeutic test, by using oxamniquine in mice infected with the
M.Z. COELHO +2 more
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Multidrug Resistance: An Emerging Crisis
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014 The resistance among various microbial species (infectious agents) to different antimicrobial drugs has emerged as a cause of public health threat all over the world at a terrifying rate. Due to the pacing advent of new resistance mechanisms and decrease in efficiency of treating common infectious diseases, it results in failure of microbial response ...
Jyoti Tanwar +4 more
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Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1986 A double-blind clinical trial involving 120 patients with chronic schistosomiasis was carried out to compare the tolerability and efficacy of praziquantel and oxamniquine. The patients were randomly allocated into two groups.
Luiz Caetano da Silva +7 more
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BioMed Research International, Volume 2014, Issue 1, 2014., 2014 The aims of this work were to evaluate the in vitro and in vivo schistosomicidal properties of the methanolic extract of the aerial parts of Mitracarpus frigidus (MFM) and to determine its HPLC profile. For the in vitro experiment, four pairs of adult worms, obtained from infected mice, were exposed to different concentrations of MFM (100 to 400 μg/mL)
Rodrigo Luiz Fabri +10 more
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