Nutrition and helminthiasis in chickens

'albendazole' in Intestinal Helminthiasis

A new anthelmintic drug Albenwas dazole (Zentel) was tested for its efficacy and tolerance in 100 children having single or mixed infestation with roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, pinworms and tapeworms. Their stools were examined by direct examination and by centrifugal floatation technique. The patients were observed carefully before and after treatment, for clinical efficacy, side effects o...

Carbon Tetrachloride in Helminthiasis

In the Journal of the American Mcdical Association of November 19th, 1921, there appeared a note by Maurice C. Hall on the use of Carbon tetrachloride for the removal of hookworms in animals. Dr. Hall is the senior zoologist, United States Bureau of Animal Industry, and he found this drug to be a powerful anthelmintic in dogs* and suggested its trial in human uncinariasis. Carbon tetrachloride ...

Intestinal Helminthiasis in Southern Vietnam

A program to control intestinal helminth infections, based on stool surveys, mass treatment of children below 17 years, improvement of sanitation and health education was performed between 1997 and 1999 in Phan Tien, an ethnic minority community in mountainous southern Vietnam. Before intervention, 28.6% of children excreted eggs of at least one parasite, hookworm being the most common (23%), f...

Haemoglobin levels and helminthiasis in Malay recruits.

Helminthiasis among Prisoners

on this subject. In these notes my endeavour has been directed mainly to bring forward statistical evidence to show the prevalence of this infection *in the general population from whom the prisoners are drawn, and also the beneficial effect of attending to it in the prisoners soon after their admission. 2. The practical importance of the early detection and treatment of the parasitic infection...