Reduction of morbidity in hepatosplenic Schistosomiasis mansoni after treatment with praziquantel: a long term study
Forty-two with hepatosplenic patients treated with praziquantel and followed up for 5 years. One half of the patients received a single 30 mg/kg dose and the other half, two doses of 25 mg/kg given 4 hrs apart. According to Hoffman and Kato-Katz stool exams, an 83.3% cure rate, was observed after tw...
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Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT)
1990-06-01
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| Series: | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-86821990000200007 |