Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drug, C19H24N2O2, that kills trematodes and tapeworms parasitic to humans, used especially in the treatment of schistosomiasis.
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- noun An
anthelmintic effective againstflatworms .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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- Treatment with praziquantel, which is just as effective and well tolerated, and 3 times as cheap (IDA 1991).
Chapter 4 1993
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A drug called praziquantel has been used as the main treatment for several decades but scientists have never understood how the drug works.
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Doctors promptly prescribed praziquantel, a veterinary anti-parasitic drug that is also given to humans, and Wills was soon on the road to recovery.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Doctors promptly prescribed praziquantel, a veterinary anti-parasitic drug that is also given to humans, and Wills was soon on the road to recovery.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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A single, oral dose of the drug praziquantel, once a year, can treat it.
Focus on HIV prevents us from curing a billion people, say scientists Robin McKie 2010
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There are over 200 million cases of schistosomiasis, and all could be treated with the simple administration of the drug praziquantel.
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Hotez and his colleagues have shown that a single mass treatment of praziquantel administered in Burkina Faso and Niger in West Africa reduced prevalence of schistosomiasis by 84 percent among girls; they cite similar results in other pilot programs.
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He points out that praziquantel, the cure for schistosomiasis, costs twenty dollars.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Hotez, one of the report's lead authors, emphasized to me on Friday that "fewer than 2% of people in Africa who should be getting treated for schistosomiasis are currently getting treated, so this is a wakeup call to enhance coverage with praziquantel."
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Mass administration of praziquantel of school aged children -- who are not yet sexually active -- can essentially inoculate girls against developing the disease; repeat treatments can keep girls and young women healthy, not to mention lowering the disease burden in the community.
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