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Boletín de Malariología y Salud Ambiental

versión impresa ISSN 1690-4648

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ACHE ROWBOTTON, Alberto R. et al. Evaluation of the efficacy of antihelmintic drugs for the control of Trichuris trichiura and other helminthic diseases in the state of Aragua, Venezuela. Bol Mal Salud Amb [online]. 2012, vol.52, n.2, pp.195-210. ISSN 1690-4648.

A four-arm clinical trial was carried out in 14 communities in the State of Aragua to evaluate four antihelminthics treatments, as monotherapy and combined treatments for soil-transmitted helminthiasis: Mebendazole, albendazole and each of these drugs in combination with ivermectin. Treatments were given after an initial stool specimens were obtained for examination, with two sequential stool reevaluations on days 7 and 21. Cure rates (zero eggs in stools) at day 7 after treatments were favourable for combined treatments, specially albendazole + ivermectin (χ2 = 10.85; P < 0.0009), which was not reflected by day 21 since no treatment showed any superior efficacy. Trichuris trichiura still responds satisfactorily to conventional treatments offered by the national Programme for the Fight against Anclyostomiasis and other Intestinal Parasites. Notwithstanding the similarities of monotherapy and combined treatments efficacy, the percentage of patients cured with T. trichiura solely or with mixed infections was high (> 93%). Hookworm infections were cured a 100% (zero eggs found in feces), followed by A. lumbricoides (98.2%) and mixed infections by T. trichiura + A. lumbricoides + hookworms (100%). However, the mean egg reduction percent was also a 100% for hookworms, 89.3% for A. lumbricoides and 81.7% for T. trichiura. The rates of treatment failure were limited, albendazole 6.20%, mebendazole 5.14%, for the combination of albendazole + ivermectin 2.02% and for mebendazole + ivermectine 2.22%. The majority of treatment failures were seen in the 0-9 age group. It is perhaps convenient to use combined schemes in cases of treatment failure. But, there is doubt as to whether there is the possibility of resistance to these drugs given that the majority of treatment failures observed in patients with low intensity infections which might be subdued in time.

Palabras clave : Clinical trial; soil transmitted helminthic infections; prevalence; mebendazole; albendazole.

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