

@article {11052,
	title = {Rate of reinfection with intestinal nematodes after treatment of children with mebendazole or albendazole in a highly endemic area},
	journal = {Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene},
	volume = {89},
	number = {5},
	year = {1995},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {538{\textendash}541},
	abstract = {<p>The comparative efficacy of albendazole and mebendazole in the treatment of intestinal nematode infections were compared 3 weeks after treatment in a randomized trial among schoolchildren on Pemba Island, Tanzania. Egg counts were compared 3 weeks, 4 months and 6 months after treatment of 731 children seen on each occasion. Differences in the efficacies were apparent with some nematodes 21 d after treatment, but these were no longer apparent 4 months after treatment, and by 6 months intensities of infection were similar to pre-treatment levels. These findings suggest that treatment of schoolchildren every 4 months may be necessary in this highly endemic area in order to have an impact on the intensity of intestinal nematode infections sufficient to be likely to reduce morbidity.</p>
},
	keywords = {albendazole, Antinematodal Agents, ascariasis, Child, Feces, Hookworm Infections, Humans, Intestinal Diseases, Mebendazole, Parasite Egg Count, Parasitic, Recurrence, Sampling Studies, Tanzania, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome, Trichuriasis},
	issn = {0035-9203},
	author = {Albonico, M. and Smith, P. G. and Ercole, E. and Hall, A. and Chwaya, H. M. and Alawi, K. S. and Savioli, L.}
}
