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- ISSN: 0002-9637
- E-ISSN: 1476-1645
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- The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 27, Issue 6, 1 Nov 1978, p. 1137 - 1147
Streptocerciasis: Degeneration of Adult Dipetalonema Streptocerca in Man Following Diethylcarbamazine Therapy *
Abstract
Abstract
Thirty-three patients in Zaire with streptocerciasis were treated daily with diethylcarbamazine (DEC) for 21 days. Histopathologic studies of biopsy specimens from papules of skin established that during DEC treatment adult male and female Dipetalonema streptocerca die and degenerate. DEC may thus produce radical cures of streptocerciasis.
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