Reduced efficacy of single-dose albendazole against Ascaris lumbricoides, and Trichuris trichiura, and high reinfection rate after cure among school children in southern Ethiopia: a prospective cohort study
作者机构:Department of Global Public Health Karolinska Institutet Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm Sweden Ethiopian Food and Drug Authority Addis Ababa Ethiopia Center for Innovative Drug Development and Therapeutic Trials for Africa College of Health Sciences Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia Departments of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacy College of Health Sciences Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa Ethiopia College of Medicine and Health Sciences Hawassa University Hawassa Ethiopia Ethiopian Public Health Institute Addis Ababa Ethiopia
出 版 物:《Infectious Diseases of Poverty》 (贫困所致传染病(英文))
年 卷 期:2024年第13卷第1期
页 面:95-96页
核心收录:
学科分类:1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1002[医学-临床医学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 100201[医学-内科学(含:心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学]
基 金:Hawassa University Hospital Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete, Sida, (CSA2016S-1618) European Commission, EC European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership, EDCTP
主 题:Soil transmitted helminths Neglected tropical diseases Preventive chemotherapy Albendazole School age children Ethiopia
摘 要:Background Mass drug administration(MDA)program of albendazole to at-risk populations as preventive chemo-therapy is the core public health intervention to control soil-transmitted helminths(STHs).Achieving this goal relies on drug effectiveness in reducing the parasite reservoirs in the community and preventing *** assessed the effcacy of albendazole against STH parasite infection and reinfection status after *** A total of 984 schoolchildren infected with at least one type of STH parasite(hookworm,Ascaris lumbri-coides,Trichuris trichiura)in southern Ethiopia were enrolled and received albendazole and praziquantel in MDA campaign conducted from January to March *** exams at week-4 and at week-8 of post-MDA were done using Kato Katz *** primary outcome was effcacy assessed by cure rate(CR)and fecal egg reduction rates(ERRs)at four weeks of *** secondary outcome was reinfection status defined as parasite egg positivity at eight weeks among those who were cured at 4 weeks of *** comparisons in CR and related factors were assessed with chi-square or Fisher s exact *** of CR were examined through univariate and multi-variate regression *** The overall CR and ERR for hookworm infection were 97.2%(95%CI:94.6-99.4)and 97.02%,*** overall CR and ERR for *** were 71.5%(95%CI:68.3-74.6)and 84.5% *** overall CR and ERR and for *** were 49.5%(95%CI:44.8-54.2)and 68.3%,*** CR among moderate *** infec-tion intensity was 28.6%.Among children cured of hookworm,*** and *** at week 4 post-MDA,4.6%,18.3% and 52.4% became reinfected at week-8 post-MDA,*** lower CR(36.6%)and higher reinfection after cure(60.6%)among *** and *** coinfected children than *** only(CR=69.6%,reinfection rate=15.1%)or *** only infected children(CR=55.6%,reinfection rate=47.1%)was obse