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Artigo
em Inglês
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| ID: sea-111742
RESUMO
Single course DEC treatment (6 mg/kg body weight/day for 12 days) was administered to 66 tribal and 442 non-tribal microfilaria (mf) carriers detected through a Filariasis survey in Bankura district, West Bengal, India. All the mf carriers remained amicrofilaraemic on 22nd, 180th and 365th post-treatment day. As a result of DEC treatment to the mf carriers, vector (Culex quinquefasciatus) infection rate in tribal study areas reduced from 2.06% to 1.07%. Infectivity rate was "nil" both before and after treatment. In non-tribal study areas, vector infection rate reduced from 4.33% to 2.22% and infectivity rate from 0.51% to 0.29%.
Assuntos
Animais , Portador Sadio/tratamento farmacológico , Culicidae/parasitologia , Dietilcarbamazina/administração & dosagem , Filariose/tratamento farmacológico , Filaricidas/administração & dosagem , Humanos , Índia , Insetos Vetores/parasitologia , Microfilárias/efeitos dos fármacos , Wuchereria bancrofti/efeitos dos fármacos
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J Indian Med Assoc
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1963 Oct; 41(): 337-42
Artigo
em Inglês
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-97404