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Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg., 32(2), 1983, pp. 371-375
Copyright © 1983 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Successful Treatment with Praziquantel of Six Patients Infected with the African Lung Fluke, Paragonimus Uterobilateralis*

Mark H. Monson, Juergen W. Koenig AND Ruediger Sachs
Curran Lutheran Hospital, Zorzor, Liberia, Bong Mine Medical Center, Bong Range, Liberia, and the Liberia Research Unit of the Bernhard Nocht-Institut für Schiffs und Tropenkrankheiten, Hamburg, West Germany

Six cases of human paragonimiasis (Paragonimus uterobilateralis) are documented from Liberia and Guinea. These are the first cases reported from these countries. Paragonimiasis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of any West African patient who presents with hemoptysis. Praziquantel was used successfully to treat these patients, and may be the drug of choice for P. uterobilateralis infections.

Accepted for publication June 30, 1982.


* Address reprint requests to: Mark H. Monson, M.D., Box 1046, Monrovia, Liberia.






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