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The Use of Mebendazole Anthelmintic in as a Broad-Spectrum Rhodesia
Abstract
In a trial on baboons and humans, mebendazole was found to be a very safe and highly effective anthelmintic for a range of intestinal helminths in Central Africa, including hookworm (Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus), Oesophagostomum bifurcum, Ternidens deminutus, Strongyloides stercoralis, Strongyloides fiilleborni, Physaloptera (=. Abbreviata) sp., Ascaris lumbricoides, Enterobius vermicularis, Trichuris trichiura, Taenia saginata and Moniliformis moniliformis. It has also some activity against Hymenolepis nana.