[The treatment of rats experimentally infected with Strongyloides venezuelensis by orally administered ivermectin]

Rev Soc Bras Med Trop. 1997 Nov-Dec;30(6):481-4. doi: 10.1590/s0037-86821997000600007.
[Article in Portuguese]

Abstract

Strongyloides venezuelensis experimental infection in rats was treated by two different oral preparations of ivermectin, 0.2 mg/kg. One was a human formula used by WHO in the treatment of onchocerciasis; the other was a veterinary preparation. Adult worms and larvae were evaluated. The human formulation cleared both forms in 59.3% (adult worms) and 73.0% (larvae), whereas the veterinary one cleared 98.0% and 84.2%, respectively. The antilarval action is very useful when treating systemic strongyloidiasis.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Administration, Oral
  • Animals
  • Antinematodal Agents / administration & dosage*
  • Drug Evaluation, Preclinical
  • Female
  • Intestines / parasitology
  • Ivermectin / administration & dosage*
  • Larva / drug effects
  • Rats
  • Rats, Wistar
  • Strongyloides / drug effects
  • Strongyloidiasis / drug therapy*
  • Strongyloidiasis / parasitology
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Antinematodal Agents
  • Ivermectin