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La situation generale de la Republique de Guinee en tant que milieu d'etude a ete examinee. Les helminthes parasites intestinaux sont representes d'apres un recensement des especes les plus frequentes qui sont au nombre de 7. Le recensement a ete fait a partir des registres d'examen coprologique des hopitaux de Kouroussa; Kankan; Siguiri et Kerouane (quelques prefectures de la province de Kankan; Haute Guinee). Une investigation ethnobotanique a permis d'obtenir une liste synoptique de 89 especes de plantes medicinales qui ont ete ensuite etudiees
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Helminthiasis/drug therapy , Helminths , Medicine , PlantsABSTRACT
The therapeutic effect of levamisole (ketrax) in 28 children aged 6-12 years old living in Freetown; Sierra Leone against ascaris lumbricoides; hookworm and trichuris trichiura infections was investigated. Levamisole effectively reduced the intensity of all three infections. Prevalence returned more rapidly to pre-treatment levels than did intensity. A lumbricoides was found to be the most sensitive to the drug followed by hookworm. Although prevalence of T. trichiura rose by day 56 in each course there was reduction in eggs per gram of stool (e.p.g.). There were no side effects reported throughout the study