Efficacy and safety of single-dose 40 mg/kg oral praziquantel in the treatment of schistosomiasis in preschool-age versus school-age children: An individual participant data meta-analysis.

• मुख्य लेखकों: Piero L Olliaro (लेखक), Jean T Coulibaly (लेखक), Amadou Garba (लेखक), Christine Halleux (लेखक), Jennifer Keiser (लेखक), Charles H King (लेखक), Francisca Mutapi (लेखक), Eliézer K N'Goran (लेखक), Giovanna Raso (लेखक), Alexandra U Scherrer (लेखक), José Carlos Sousa-Figueiredo (लेखक), Katarina Stete (लेखक), Jürg Utzinger (लेखक), Michel T Vaillant (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Better knowledge of the efficacy and safety of single-dose 40 mg/kg oral praziquantel in preschool-age children is required, should preventive chemotherapy programs for schistosomiasis be expanded to include this age group.<h4>Methodology</h4>We analyzed in...