Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline only treatment of Onchocerca volvulus in an area of Loa loa co-endemicity: a randomized controlled trial.

• Päätekijät: Joseph D Turner (Tekijä), Nicholas Tendongfor (Tekijä), Mathias Esum (Tekijä), Kelly L Johnston (Tekijä), R Stuart Langley (Tekijä), Louise Ford (Tekijä), Brian Faragher (Tekijä), Sabine Specht (Tekijä), Sabine Mand (Tekijä), Achim Hoerauf (Tekijä), Peter Enyong (Tekijä), Samuel Wanji (Tekijä), Mark J Taylor (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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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 used without...