Hetrazan in the treatment of filariasis due to Wuchereria malayi

1 July 1950

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Vol. 44 (1) , 49-66
https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(50)90071-x

Abstract

Hetrazan therapy gives fairly satisfactory control both in clinical cases without microfilariae in the blood, and in cases showing microfilariae. Individual febrile reactions to hetrazan preclude its use in unsupervised mass treatments of whole populations in endemic areas.

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