Macrofilaricidal Activity after Doxycycline Only Treatment of Onchocerca volvulus in an Area of Loa loa Co-Endemicity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

BACKGROUND: The risk of severe adverse events following treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in areas co-endemic with loiasis currently compromises the development of control programmes and the treatment of co-infected individuals. We therefore assessed whether doxycycline treatment could be...

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Autores principales: Turner, Joseph D., Tendongfor, Nicholas, Esum, Mathias, Johnston, Kelly L., Langley, R. Stuart, Ford, Louise, Faragher, Brian, Specht, Sabine, Mand, Sabine, Hoerauf, Achim, Enyong, Peter, Wanji, Samuel, Taylor, Mark J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20405054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000660

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2854122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20405054
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0000660

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