| Autor: |
Frederick J. Brady, Willard H. Wright |
| Rok vydání: |
1940 |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of the American Medical Association. 114 |
| ISSN: |
0002-9955 |
| DOI: |
10.1001/jama.1940.02810100027010 |
| Popis: |
The inadequacy of available therapeutic measures for the control of pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis) infestation is well known to those physicians who have had experience in dealing with this troublesome problem. In fact, the failure of conventional methods of therapy in these cases is sometimes a source of embarrassment to the physician, particularly when these patients return time after time for further treatment. Unfortunately, either the large majority of the published articles on the treatment of this disease have been based on inadequate numbers of cases or reliance has been placed on the patient's history for the diagnosis and on clinical observations for the efficacy of the treatment. Undoubtedly the pinworm is the most common and widespread of the animal parasites infesting man in this country. Improvements in sanitation and an efficient meat inspection service have limited the spread of many animal parasites, but modern sanitation has apparently had little effect |
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