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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 108(7): 881-886, 1jan. 2013. tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-696010

ABSTRACT

Mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni were treated with oxamniquine, praziquantel, artesunate at the pre-patent phase, aiming at observing schistogram alterations. Half of the animals were perfused five days post-treatment for counting and classification of immature worms, based on pre-established morphological criteria (schistogram); the remaining animals were evaluated 42 or 100 days after infection and perfusion of the portal-system was performed for collection and counting of adult worms and oogram. It was observed that oxamniquine and artesunate treatment administered at the pre-postural phase causes significant reduction in the number of immature and adult worms. However, there was little reduction with praziquantel when used at the dose of 400 mg/kg for treatments administered 14, 15, 21 or 23 days post-infection. Artesunate was responsible for significant alterations in development of young worms, as well as for a higher number of worms presenting intestinal damages. Immature adult worms were detected in mice treated with artesunate or oxamniquine at the pre-patent phase of infection and recovered by perfusion 100 days after infection. Schistogram proved to be a very useful tool for experimental evaluation of the activity of antischistosomal drugs and a good model to identify the most sensitive stages to drugs.


Subject(s)
Animals , Female , Mice , Artemisinins/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni/drug effects , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Drug Therapy, Combination/methods , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Parasite Egg Count , Parasitemia/drug therapy , Praziquantel/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni/growth & development
2.
Salvador; s.n; 2011. 70 p. ilus.
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-710695

ABSTRACT

A esquistossomose mansônica é uma doença parasitária tropical. Causadas por helmintos do gênero Schistosoma. Com a intenção de conter a doença, diversos institutos e organizações vêm desenvolvendo medidas de controle para tratar indivíduos infectados e evitar a ocorrência de novas infecções. Estratégias de administração de medicamentos em massa são eficazes na cura da doença, entretanto o tratamento com drogas anti-helmínticas não previnem a possibilidade da ocorrência de reinfecções. Diante desta questão, neste trabalho propusemo-nos a analisar a cinética da fibrose hepática em camundongos esquistossomóticos tratados e submetidos à reinfecção. Para alcançar este objetivo, 70 camundongos Swiss foram infectados com 50 cercárias de S.mansoni, posteriormente tratados com Oxamniquine ou Praziquantel e reinfectados quatro meses após tratamento. Os fígados destes animais foram submetidos a técnicas de imunohistoquímica e imunofluorescência e microscopia eletrônica de transmissão para avaliação da expressão e participação de componentes envolvidos no processo fibrogênico. Para verificar os índices de colágeno entre os grupos utilizou-se a análise morfométrica. A análise histológica revelou que camundongos esquistossomóticos submetidos à quimioterapia específica desenvolveram altos índices de fibrose durante a reinfecção. A imunomarcação para alfa actina de músculo liso (α-SMA) revelou que grande parte do parênquima hepático dos animais tratados e reinfectados exibiam células com perfil miofibloblástico. A imunofluorescência demonstrou que o padrão de marcação para laminina estava alterado em animais com esquistossomose. A análise morfométrica revelou que reinfecção destes animais ocasionou uma intensa deposição de fibras colágenas no parênquima hepático. Os dados obtidos demonstraram que a reinfecção em animais previamente tratados, foi capaz de induzir uma resposta fibrótica semelhante a encontrada nos animais com infecção primária.


Subject(s)
Animals , Mice , Liver Cirrhosis/blood , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Praziquantel/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni/parasitology
3.
Braz. j. infect. dis ; 14(3): 288-290, May-June 2010. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-556843

ABSTRACT

S. haematobium is an important cause of urinary schistosomiasis, and symptomatic female genital infection is a common gynecological finding in areas where S. haematobium is prevalent. On the other hand, genital manifestations of intestinal schistosomas as S. mansoni are not frequent or are misdiagnosed. A case of a 40-year-old woman with abnormal uterine bleeding and asymptomatic tubal infection by S. mansoni identified in histological examination is presented.


Subject(s)
Adult , Female , Humans , Fallopian Tube Diseases/parasitology , Schistosomiasis mansoni/diagnosis , Fallopian Tube Diseases/diagnosis , Fallopian Tube Diseases/drug therapy , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use
4.
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop ; 42(5): 581-582, Sept.-Oct. 2009. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-532517

ABSTRACT

The relationship between bladder tumors and Schistosoma haematobium is well known, but only sporadic cases of bladder infection due to Schistosoma mansoni have been reported. In this case, a 48-year-old woman with macroscopic hematuria, dysuria and a palpable abdominal mass was investigated. Ultrasound showed a large exophytic mass in the bladder. Transurethral resection of the bladder revealed viable eggs of Schistosoma mansoni. The patient was treated clinically with oxamniquine and surgery was performed to resect the large mass. This case shows that schistosomiasis Mansoni in the bladder can simulate bladder cancer.


É bem conhecida a relação entre tumor vesical e Schistosoma haematobium, porém somente casos esporádicos de infecção vesical por Schistosoma mansoni foram relatados. Neste caso, uma mulher de 48 anos com hematúria macroscópica, disúria e massa abdominal palpável foi investigada, ultra-sonografia mostrou uma grande massa exofítica na bexiga. A ressecção transuretral de bexiga evidenciou ovos viáveis de Schistosoma mansoni. A paciente foi tratada clinicamente com oxaminiquine e uma cirurgia foi realizada para ressecar a grande massa. Este caso mostra que a esquistossomose mansônica vesical pode simular um câncer vesical.


Subject(s)
Animals , Female , Humans , Middle Aged , Schistosoma mansoni/isolation & purification , Schistosomiasis mansoni/diagnosis , Urinary Bladder Diseases/parasitology , Diagnosis, Differential , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Urinary Bladder Diseases/diagnosis , Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/diagnosis
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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 103(5): 450-454, Aug. 2008. ilus, tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-491965

ABSTRACT

The activity of lovastatin associated with oxamniquine or praziquantel against schistosomiasis mansoni was evaluated in mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni. Forty days after infection, mice were treated with lovastatin, 400 mg/kg for five consecutive days by oral route, and on the last day of this sequence with 50 mg/kg oxamniquine or with 200 mg/kg praziquantel, both by oral route, single dose. Fifteen days later, the animals were perfused in parallel with an untreated control group. Studies were carried out in vitro, using lovastatin in culture medium containing S. mansoni worms proceeding from experimentally infected mice. In the in vivo trials, the association of lovastatin with oxamniquine or praziquantel did not show any additive action, but there were oogram changes when lovastatin was associated with oxamniquine. In vitro lovastatin was able to interrupt the maturation of S. mansoni eggs, which remained at the 1st or 2nd stages, depending on the dose used. The total number of morphologically dead eggs found in culture of worms exposed to 2 µg/ml or 4 µg/ml concentrations of lovastatin was significantly higher than the number of viable eggs. Using the probe Hoescht 33258 it was observed that 70 percent of the eggs considered morphologically viable in the treated groups (against 16 percent in the control group) were labeled, indicating that the majority of the viable eggs had membrane permeability increased due to lovastatin action.


Subject(s)
Animals , Mice , Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors/therapeutic use , Lovastatin/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni/drug effects , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Drug Therapy, Combination , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Praziquantel/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni/enzymology
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Braz. j. infect. dis ; 11(5): 523-524, Oct. 2007. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-465779

ABSTRACT

Testicular schistosomiasis by Schistosoma mansoni is exceedingly rare, with only 11 cases reported in PubMed. We report a new case from Brazil. A 31-year-old man from the northeast region of the country presented with a 2 cm nodule in the right testis. Ultrasonography showed a well-delimited hypoechoic tumor, suggestive of a granulomatous lesion. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed an irregular tunica albuginea signal. A biopsy showed interstitial tissue with schistosome ova and granuloma formation. The nodule was excised, and the patient was treated with oxamniquine. He has remained symptom free for 10 years. A testicular nodule should raise suspicion of numerous pathologies, including schistosomiasis. Treatment should include therapy with oxamniquine or praziquantel, and nodule excision should be done whenever possible.


Subject(s)
Adult , Humans , Male , Schistosomiasis mansoni , Testicular Diseases/parasitology , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Orchiectomy , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Schistosomiasis mansoni/diagnosis , Schistosomiasis mansoni/therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Testicular Diseases/diagnosis , Testicular Diseases/therapy
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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 102(2): 225-228, Mar. 2007. graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-447546

ABSTRACT

Patients with acute schistosomiasis were studied before and after oxamniquine treatment. They had been exposed to cercariae 5 to 9 weeks before, and presented compatible clinical manifestations, eosinophilia, and high levels of total IgE. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) and interleukin-4 were measured by ELISA in whole blood samples under soluble egg antigen or soluble adult worm preparation stimulation. After treatment, the reduction of leukocytosis and eosinophilia were not significant, but total IgE levels decreased significantly, in contrast to IFN-gamma levels that were significantly increased. The oxamniquine treatment of acute schistosomiasis patients is followed by an improvement of a Th1 response in vitro. If this response has a protective aspect is unknown, and some investigations need to be realized.


Subject(s)
Humans , Animals , Male , Female , Child , Adolescent , Adult , Antigens, Helminth/immunology , Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni/immunology , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Acute Disease , Antibodies, Helminth/blood , Disease Outbreaks , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Feces/parasitology , Immunoglobulin E/blood , Interferon-gamma/immunology , Parasite Egg Count , Schistosomiasis mansoni/blood , Schistosomiasis mansoni/immunology
8.
An. Fac. Med. Univ. Fed. Pernamb ; 52(1): 64-66, 2007. ilus
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-495324

ABSTRACT

Paciente do sexo feminino, 11 anos, apresentando sangramento retal por três dias, com piora nas últimas 24 horas. Admitida com sinais de instabilidade hemodinâmica e massa polipóide vegetante aderida à mucosa retal. Ressecção e hemostasia foram realizadas em ambiente cirúrgico. A etiologia da lesão foi confirmada microscopicamente pela presença de diversos ovos e vermes adultos de Schistosoma mansoni. Realizou-se tratamento com oxaminiquine 20mg/kg em duas doses. Após três semanas a paciente recebeu alta do hospital assintomática e em boas condições.


Subject(s)
Child , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage , Intestinal Polyps/surgery , Rectum , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Proctocolitis
9.
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 101(supl.1): 149-156, Oct. 2006. tab, graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-441240

ABSTRACT

The most critical phase of exposure to schistosomal infection is the infancy, because of the more frequent contact with contaminated water and the immaturity of the immune system. One of the most severe presentations of this parasitosis is the involvement of the spinal cord, which prognosis is largely dependent on early diagnosis and treatment. Reports on this clinical form of schistosomiasis in children are rare in the literature. We present here the clinical-epidemiological profile of schistosomal myeloradiculopathy (SMR) from ten children who were admitted at the Instituto Materno-Infantil de Pernambuco over a five-year period. They were evaluated according to an investigation protocol. Most of these patients presented an acute neurological picture which included as the main clinical manifestations: sphincteral disorders, low back and lower limbs pain, paresthesia, lower limbs muscle weakness and absence of deep tendon reflex, and impairment of the gait. The diagnosis was presumptive in the majority of the cases. This study emphasizes the importance of considering the diagnosis of SMR in pediatric patients coming from endemic areas who present a low cord syndrome, in order to start the appropriate therapy and avoid future complications.


Subject(s)
Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , Neuroschistosomiasis/diagnosis , Radiculopathy/diagnosis , Schistosomiasis mansoni/diagnosis , Anthelmintics/therapeutic use , Neuroschistosomiasis/drug therapy , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Prednisone/therapeutic use , Retrospective Studies , Radiculopathy/drug therapy , Radiculopathy/parasitology , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Treatment Outcome
10.
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 101(supl.1): 267-272, Oct. 2006. ilus
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-441257

ABSTRACT

Hepatosplenic schistosomiasis was the first human disease in which the possibility of extensive long standing hepatic fibrosis being degraded and removed has been demonstrated. When such changes occurred, the main signs of portal hypertension (splenomegaly, esophageal varices) progressively disappeared, implying that a profound vascular remodeling was concomitantly occurring. Hepatic vascular alterations associated with advanced schistosomiasis have already been investigated. Obstruction of the intrahepatic portal vein branches, plus marked angiogenesis and compensatory hyperplasia and hypertrophy of the arterial tree are the main changes present. However, there are no data revealing how these vascular changes behave during the process of fibrosis regression. Here the mouse model of pipestem fibrosis was used in an investigation about these vascular alterations during the course of the infection, and also after treatment and cure of the disease. Animals representing the two polar hepatic forms of the infection were included: (1) "isolated granulomas" characterized by isolated periovular granulomas sparsely distributed throughout the hepatica parenchyma; and (2) 'pipestem fibrosis' with periovular granulomas and fibrosis being concentrated within portal spaces, before and after treatment, were studied by means of histological and vascular injection-corrosion techniques. Instances of widespread portal vein obstruction of several types were commonly found in the livers of the untreated animals. These obstructive lesions were soon repaired, and completely disappeared four months following specific treatment of schistosomiasis. Treatment was accomplished by the simultaneous administration of praziquantel and oxamniquine. The most impressive results were revealed by the technique of injection of colored masses into the portal system, followed by corrosion in strong acid. The vascular lesions of non-treated pipestem fibrosis were represented...


Subject(s)
Animals , Female , Humans , Male , Mice , Liver Circulation/physiology , Liver Cirrhosis/pathology , Liver Diseases, Parasitic/pathology , Portal System/pathology , Schistosomiasis mansoni/complications , Anthelmintics/therapeutic use , Chronic Disease , Disease Models, Animal , Granuloma/pathology , Liver Cirrhosis/parasitology , Liver Cirrhosis/physiopathology , Liver Diseases, Parasitic/physiopathology , Mice, Inbred BALB C , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Portal System/parasitology , Portal System/physiopathology , Praziquantel/therapeutic use , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomiasis mansoni/pathology
11.
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop ; 39(3): 287-288, maio-jun. 2006. ilus
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-433397

ABSTRACT

Paciente de 36 anos de idade, proveniente de zona endêmica foi admitido com episódios de hematúria macroscópica total e disúria terminal. A citoscopia mostrou um tumor exofítico na parede anterior da bexiga, sugestivo de câncer. A biópsia revelou esquistossomose mansônica. Ressecção transuretral confirmou o diagnóstico. O paciente foi clinicamente tratado com oxamniquine, obtendo cura. O caso apresentado nesse trabalho enfatiza que nem todos os tumores de bexiga com hematúria microscópica são cânceres de bexiga.


Subject(s)
Adult , Animals , Humans , Male , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni/isolation & purification , Schistosomiasis mansoni/diagnosis , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Urinary Bladder Diseases/parasitology , Biopsy , Diagnosis, Differential , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomiasis mansoni/pathology , Treatment Outcome , Urinary Bladder Diseases/drug therapy , Urinary Bladder Diseases/pathology , Urinary Bladder Neoplasms/diagnosis
12.
Belo Horizonte; s.n; 2005. xv,82 p. ilus. (MCS-CPqRR).
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-536140

ABSTRACT

O presente estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o potencial terapêutico da associação de oxamniquina (OXA) e praziquantel (PZQ), no tratamento da esquistossomose mansoni, por meio de experimentos "in vivo" e "in vitro". A ação das drogas em associação foi comparada ao efeito de cada droga utilizada isoladamente, em camundongos experimentalmente infectados. As associações de OXA e PZQ utilizadas (50 mg/Kg de OXA + 100 mg/Kg de PZQ e 100 mg/Kg de OXA + 200 mg/Kg de PZQ) mostraram-se mais efetivas na redução do número de vermes quando comparados ao tratamento com 400 mg/Kg de PZQ, empregado separadamente. A associação na maior dosagem foi o único esquema terapêutico capaz de eliminar todos os parasitos dos animais. Em adição, a maior susceptibilidade dos parasitos machos à OXA e das fêmeas ao PZQ foi confirmada, podendo explicar pelo menos em parte, a maior eficácia da combinação de ambas as drogas. A possível sinergia das drogas também foi estudada, avaliando-se o efeito dessas isoladamente ou em associação, sobre o sistema excretor e sobre a membrana tegumentar de vermes adultos de Schistosoma mansoni, através do uso de marcadores fluorescentes "in vitro". Para tanto, os parasitos foram expostos diretamente às drogas ou recuperados após duas horas do tratamento de animais infectados. Pela primeira vez, foi demonstrada a atuação do PZQ no sistema excretor de vermes adultos de S. mansoni. O PZQ atuou inibindo a atividade excretora dos parasitos machos, porém esta atividade foi recuperada, logo após a retirada da droga. Os parasitos fêmeas não acasalados apresentaram nítida atividade excretora, independentemente da exposição às drogas, ao passo que as fêmeas acasaladas somente tiveram seu sistema excretor ativo quando expostos a agentes agressores externos, não apresentando nenhum sinal de atividade, em condições normais (sem exposição às drogas). A associação OXA/PZQ mostrou causar danos mais intensos na membrana tegumentar dos parasitos em relação àqueles...


Subject(s)
Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Praziquantel/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni , Schistosomiasis mansoni
13.
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop ; 38(1): 33-37, jan.-fev. 2005. tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-420211

ABSTRACT

Duzentos e vinte e três indivíduos de área endêmica de baixa morbidade para esquistossomose e nove pacientes hospitalizados com a forma hepatoesplênica foram submetidos ao exame de fezes e clínico e à ultra-sonografia do abdômen. De acordo com os resultado dos exames de fezes e do ultra-som eles foram agrupados do seguinte modo: G1 - 63 indivíduos sem ovos de Schistosoma mansoni nas fezes; G2 - 141 indivíduos apresentando ovos de Schistosoma mansoni nas fezes, sem ecogenicidade periportal. G3 — 19 indivíduos com ovos de Schistosoma mansoni nas fezes e ecogenicidade periportal entre 3-6mm.; G4 — 9 pacientes hepatesplênicos com ecogenicidade periportal > 6mm. Pelo exame físico do abdômen, a hepatomegalia na linha hemiclavicular direita foi constatada em G1, G2 E G3, respectivamente, em 11,1, 12,1 e 26,3%. Nos grupos G1, G2 e G3, houve espessamento periportal somente em esquistossomáticos (8,5%). Alterações patológicas leves em pacientes, as quais não puderam ser detectadas pelo exame clínico, foram evidenciadas no fígado pelo ultra-som e podem ser devidas à fibrose. O grau de fibrose periportal leve foi diminuído em 57,9% dos pacientes 12 meses após tratamento da esquistossomose com oxamniquine. Na ultra-sonografia, a média da medida do lobo esquerdo do fígado dos indivíduos de G3 foi maior que a de G1 e, a de G4 maior que a de G1 e G2. O tamanho médio do baço de G4 foi significativamente maior que o dos outros grupos e o de G3 foi maior que o de G1 e G2.


Subject(s)
Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Animals , Child , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Liver Diseases, Parasitic/diagnosis , Schistosomiasis mansoni/diagnosis , Splenic Diseases/diagnosis , Case-Control Studies , Endemic Diseases , Feces/parasitology , Liver Cirrhosis/drug therapy , Liver Cirrhosis/parasitology , Liver Cirrhosis , Liver Diseases, Parasitic/drug therapy , Liver Diseases, Parasitic , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Parasite Egg Count , Portal Vein/parasitology , Portal Vein , Severity of Illness Index , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomiasis mansoni , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Splenic Diseases/drug therapy , Splenic Diseases
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Belo Horizonte; s.n; 2005. xv,82 p. ilus. (MCS-CPqRR).
Thesis in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-516302

ABSTRACT

O presente estudo teve como objetivo avaliar o potencial terapêutico da associação de oxamniquina (OXA) e praziquantel (PZQ), no tratamento da esquistossomose mansoni, por meio de experimentos "in vivo" e "in vitro". A ação das drogas em associação foi comparada ao efeito de cada droga utilizada isoladamente, em camundongos experimentalmente infectados. As associações de OXA e PZQ utilizadas (50 mg/Kg de OXA + 100 mg/Kg de PZQ e 100 mg/Kg de OXA + 200 mg/Kg de PZQ) mostraram-se mais efetivas na redução do número de vermes quando comparados ao tratamento com 400 mg/Kg de PZQ, empregado separadamente. A associação na maior dosagem foi o único esquema terapêutico capaz de eliminar todos os parasitos dos animais. Em adição, a maior susceptibilidade dos parasitos machos à OXA e das fêmeas ao PZQ foi confirmada, podendo explicar pelo menos em parte, a maior eficácia da combinação de ambas as drogas. A possível sinergia das drogas também foi estudada, avaliando-se o efeito dessas isoladamente ou em associação, sobre o sistema excretor e sobre a membrana tegumentar de vermes adultos de Schistosoma mansoni, através do uso de marcadores fluorescentes "in vitro". Para tanto, os parasitos foram expostos diretamente às drogas ou recuperados após duas horas do tratamento de animais infectados. Pela primeira vez, foi demonstrada a atuação do PZQ no sistema excretor de vermes adultos de S. mansoni. O PZQ atuou inibindo a atividade excretora dos parasitos machos, porém esta apresentaram nítida atividade excretora,independentemente da exposição às drogas, ao passo que as fêmeas acasaladas somente tiveram seu sistema excretor ativo quando expostos a agentes agressores externos, não apresentando nenhum sinal de atividade, em condições normais (sem exposição às drogas). A associação OXA/PZQ mostrou causar danos mais intensos na membrana tegumentar dos parasitos em relação àqueles provocados pelo uso das drogas usadas separadamente. Os resultados obtidos, com este trabalho, aponta...


Subject(s)
Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Praziquantel/therapeutic use , Schistosoma mansoni , Schistosomiasis mansoni
15.
Rev. Soc. Bras. Clín. Méd ; 2(6): 168-170, nov.-dez. 2004. tab
Article in Portuguese | LILACS | ID: lil-402367

ABSTRACT

Objetivo: Avaliar a eficácia e a segurança da associação de oxamniquine com praziquantel na quimioterapia da esquistossomose mansoni. Métodos: Foram tratados 131 pacientes com diagnóstico parasitológico de esquistossomose mansoni, divididos em dois grupos: no grupo I (n=61), receberam a associação nas doses de 12,5 mg/kg de peso de ambas as drogas, enquanto que os pacientes do grupo II (n=70) receberam doses de 7,5 mg/kg de peso do oxamniquine e 15 mg/kg de peso de praziquantel. Em ambos os grupos predominaram as formas clínicas mais brandas, bem como baixas cargas parasitárias. Os controles de cura foram realizados através de, no mínimo, seis coproscopias após o tratamento. Resultados: Cumpriram esse controle, 44 pacientes no grupo I, dos quais 26 (59,1 por cento) tiveram a totalidade dos exames de fezes negativos e 49 pacientes no grupo II, no qual apenas 20 (40,8 por cento) tiveram todas as coproscopias de controle negativas. Conclusões: Esses resultados indicam eficácia inferior àquela observada para ambas as drogas administradas isoladamente em doses plenas. A ocorrência de efeitos adversos com o uso dessa associação medicamentosa foi pouco importante, tanto em relação à frequência das reações como à sua gravidade


Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Child , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Praziquantel/therapeutic use , Drug Combinations
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Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 96(suppl): 113-115, Sept. 2001.
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-295873

ABSTRACT

Schistosomiasis mansoni affects the hepatic functional reserve. Clinical treatment with oxamniquine is not 100 percent effective and there has been found strain of this parasite resistant to this drug. The aims of this investigation were: (1) to examine the presence of residual parasite burden after medical and surgical treatment on adolescents with surgical schistosomiasis mansoni and (2) to assess the effect on the hepatic functional reserve in patients with and without residual infection. Twenty nine children with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis mansoni and bleeding esophageal varices were treated with oxamniquine. They underwent splenectomy, ligature of the left gastric vein and autologous implantation of spleen tissue into the greater omentum. After a mean post-operative follow up of five years they underwent rectal biopsy for schistosomotic egg search. They were divided in patients with and without infection. In 20 patients the submucosal egg search was negative, however, in 9 it was positive. The hepatic functional reserve in the patients without infection was as follows: 17 were Child-Pugh A and 3 Child-Pugh B. In the patients who were still infected 6 were Child-Pugh A and 3 Child-Pugh B. The chi2 analysis of the hepatic functional reserve showed chi2 = 3.19 - p= 0.07. From the results the following conclusion can be drawn: residual infection or reinfection in the follow up period had not interfered with the distribution of the hepatic functional reserve of the patients in this series. However, there was a trend for a decrease of this parameter in patients with residual infection


Subject(s)
Humans , Animals , Child , Adolescent , Liver Diseases, Parasitic/surgery , Liver/physiology , Schistosoma mansoni/isolation & purification , Schistosomiasis mansoni/surgery , Splenic Diseases/surgery , Esophageal and Gastric Varices/drug therapy , Esophageal and Gastric Varices/surgery , Follow-Up Studies , Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage/drug therapy , Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage/surgery , Liver Diseases, Parasitic/drug therapy , Liver/parasitology , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Rectum/parasitology , Recurrence , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Splenic Diseases/drug therapy
19.
Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz ; 96(suppl): 165-167, Sept. 2001. graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-295888

ABSTRACT

A group of 52 villagers was followed-up for three years regarding Schistosoma mansoni infection. All villagers were periodically surveyed by the Kato-Katz method. In March 1997 and March 1998 the positives were treated with oxamniquine (15-20 mg/kg), and in March 1999, with praziquantel (60 mg/kg). All infection indices decreased substantially between March 1999 and March 2000: prevalence of infection (from 32.7 percent to 21.2 percent), prevalence of moderate/heavy infection (from 7.7 percent to 1.9 percent), intensity of infection (from 23.1 epg to 7.4 epg) and reinfection (from 35.7 percent to 14.3 percent). Negativation increased from 53.8 to 82.4. An optimistic prognostic is assumed in the short term for the introduction of praziquantel in the study area


Subject(s)
Humans , Animals , Anthelmintics/therapeutic use , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Praziquantel/therapeutic use , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use , Agriculture , Brazil/epidemiology , Follow-Up Studies , Parasite Egg Count , Plants , Prevalence , Prognosis , Recurrence , Rural Health , Schistosoma mansoni/isolation & purification , Schistosomiasis mansoni/epidemiology , Seasons
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Rev. Inst. Med. Trop. Säo Paulo ; 43(3): 153-159, May-June 2001. ilus, tab
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-298906

ABSTRACT

The circumoval precipitin test (COPT), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and the immunoblotting anti-adult worm antigen (AWA) and soluble egg antigen (SEA) tests were applied to 17 chronically schistosome-infected patients for the detection of anti-Schistosoma mansoni antibodies before and on four occasions after oxamniquine administration over a period of six months. Compared to a control group, schistosomiasis patients showed high levels of IgG antibodies in AWA and SEA-ELISA. A decrease in IgG levels was observed six months after treatment, although negative reactions were not obtained. Significant decreases in IgG1, IgG3 and, mainly, IgG4, but not anti-SEA IgG2 levels were observed six months after treatment, again without negativity. Analysis of anti-AWA IgG antibodies by immunoblotting before treatment showed a 31 kDa strand in 14 patients (82 percent) which disappeared in three cases up to six months after treatment; furthermore, anti-SEA IgG antibodies showed the same band in nine patients (53 percent) before treatment, which disappeared in only four cases up to six months after treatment


Subject(s)
Humans , Animals , Male , Female , Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Antibodies, Helminth/blood , Immunoglobulin G/blood , Schistosoma mansoni/immunology , Schistosomiasis mansoni/immunology , Analysis of Variance , Antigens, Helminth , Chronic Disease , Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay , Evaluation Study , Follow-Up Studies , Immunoblotting , Oxamniquine/therapeutic use , Schistosomiasis mansoni/drug therapy , Schistosomicides/therapeutic use
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