Mass prophylaxis against sleeping sickness in Sierra Leone: Final report
- 1 March 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 43 (5) , 503-512
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(50)90020-4
Abstract
Mass prophylaxis through the use of pentamidine isethionate (mg. 175) is of great value in protecting the general population. Such treatment should be repeated after an interval of 1 year. Active cases will develop in spite of the injn. and must be watched for and treated in the usual manner.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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