Synergism therapeutic and immunoregulatory effects of Albendazole + rAd-mIL-28B against Echinococcosis in experiment-infected mice with protoscoleces.

• Main Authors: Yan Zhang (Author), Jianghua Wang (Author), Qingxia Yang (Author), Zhi Li (Author), Xiaoying Xu (Author), Chong Chen (Author), Zongjie Hou (Author), Qi He (Author), Li Sheng (Author), Xingming Ma (Author), Yanping Luo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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The metacestode stage of Echinococcus granulosus can cause cystic echinococcosis (CE), which still widely occurs around the world. Since the early 1970s, benzimidazoles have been shown to inhibit the growth of cysts and used to treat CE. However, benzimidazoles are still ineffective in 20%-40% of ca...