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Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health ; 1997 ; 28 Suppl 1(): 22-5
Article in English | IMSEAR | ID: sea-31861

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A community survey was conducted in Gran Dani Valley, Jayawijaya District, Irian Jaya Province, Indonesia. A total of 537 adults were asked whether they experienced epilepsy, and were physically examined for cysticercosis cysts. Forty-eight percent experienced at least one attack of epilepsy. Men had attacks 2.5 times more often than woman. Cysticercosis cysts were found in 26.5% men having 4.6 times more cysts than women. The cysts were mostly found in the pectoral region. The survey showed a raise cysticercosis in the Highlands of Irian Jaya and is considered a public health problem. Treatment was not available, but improvement of personal and environmental hygiene would be important. Mass de-worming activity should be a part of routine public health service in the district.


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Adolescent , Adult , Anticestodal Agents/therapeutic use , Brain Diseases/drug therapy , Cysticercosis/drug therapy , Epilepsy/drug therapy , Female , Geography , Humans , Indonesia/epidemiology , Male , Mebendazole/therapeutic use , Naphthols/therapeutic use , Sex Factors
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Rev. argent. microbiol ; 22(4): 199-207, oct.-dic. 1990. tab, ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-102114

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Frente a la necessidad de hallar neuveos fármacos contra el agente etiológico de la enfermedad de Chagas y en base a las propiedades biológicas y terapéuticas de naftoquinonas e isoxazoles, se resolvió estudiar el efecto de tres isoxazolilnaftoquinonas (Fig. 1) sobre el desarrollo del Trypanosoma cruzi in-vitro e in-vivo. Para evaluar la acción de las drogas sobre los epimastigotes se realizaron curvas de crecimiento con distintas concentraciones de 2-hidroxi-N-(3,4-dimetil-5-isoxazolil)-1,4-naftoquinina-4-imina (I), N-(3,4-dimetil-5-isoxazolil)-4-amino-1,2 naftoquinona (II), 2-acetil-N-(3,4-dimetil-5-isoxazolil)-1,4-naftoquinona-imina (III) y Nifurtimox como droga de referencia. Los estudios sobre la forma de tripomastigote se realizaron sobre ratones BALB/c de dos meses de edad, evaluado parasistemia en el día 13 post-infección. Los resultados obtenidos con epimastigotes mostraron que todas las drogas indujeron alteraciones consistentes es disminución de movilidad, vacuolización, pérdida de viabilidad y/o lisis de los parásitos (Fig. 2 y 3). En los tratamientos sobre tripomastigotes los resultados más concluyentes se presentaron con I que produjo una reducción de la parasitemia respecto a los controles no tratados (Fig 4)


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Animals , Mice , Isoxazoles/pharmacology , Naphthols/pharmacology , Naphthoquinones/pharmacology , Trypanocidal Agents/pharmacology , Trypanosoma cruzi/drug effects , Chagas Disease/drug therapy , Isoxazoles/toxicity , Isoxazoles/therapeutic use , Mice, Inbred BALB C , Naphthols/toxicity , Naphthols/therapeutic use , Naphthoquinones/therapeutic use , Naphthoquinones/toxicity , Nifurtimox/pharmacology , Drug Evaluation, Preclinical , Trypanocidal Agents/therapeutic use , Trypanocidal Agents/toxicity , Trypanosoma cruzi/growth & development
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