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Pharmacokinetics schistosomiasis
of praziquantel
in healthy volunteers
and patients
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Mohammed El M. Mandour’, Hamid El Turabi’, Mamoun M .A. Homeida’, Taha el Sadig’, Hassan M. ‘Department of Medicine, Ali*, James L. BennetP, William J. Leahey and Dean W. G. Hanon Universip of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan; ‘Department of Pharmacology, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan; Department of PharmacologylToxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA; 4Department of Therapeutics and Pharmacology, UK
The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland,
Abstract The pharmacokinetics of a novel praziquantel preparation (Distocidem) were investigated in Sudanesepatients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis and in healthy volunteers, and comparedwith those of BiltricidC. The results of the first study indicated greater (P