TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaimaa Helmy Elsayed Ismail
AU  - Maisa Mohamed Kamel , 
AU  - Nagwa Abdelkhalek Talaat Elkhafif , 
AU  - Soaad Ismail Hassan , 
TI  - Effect of mefloquine in murine schistosomiasis mansoni as a prophylactic and chemotherapeutic agent compared to praziquantel / 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Shaimaa Helmy Elsayed Ismail , 
KW  - MFQ
KW  - PZQ
KW  - Schistosomiasis mansoni
N1  - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Parasitology; Issued also as CD
N2  - Schistosomiasis is a chronic debilitating disease that continues to threaten millions of people, and to be the 2nd major parasitic disease worldwide after malaria in term of morbidity, mortality, and prevalence . The treatment and control of human schistosomiasis rely on a single drug, praziquantel (PZQ), that effectively kills adult schistosomes but lacks efficacy against schistosomulae (juvenile schistosomes) a fact that explains low observed cure rates of schistosomiasis
ER  -