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Streptocerciasis: Degeneration of Adult Dipetalonema Streptocerca in Man Following Diethylcarbamazine Therapy

Wayne M. MeyersDepartment of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Iyonda, Washington, D.C. 20306, Republic of Zaire

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Roger MorisDepartment of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Iyonda, Washington, D.C. 20306, Republic of Zaire

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Ronald C. NeafieDepartment of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Iyonda, Washington, D.C. 20306, Republic of Zaire

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Daniel H. ConnorDepartment of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Iyonda, Washington, D.C. 20306, Republic of Zaire

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Jacques BourlandDepartment of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Iyonda, Washington, D.C. 20306, Republic of Zaire

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1978.27.1137
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Volume 27: Issue 6
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1137–1147
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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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Present address: Damien Foundation, B.P. 774, Bujumbura, Republic of Burundi.

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Copyright © 1978 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1978
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06 May 1978
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Nov 1978
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