Effective control of hookworm infection in school children from Dhofar, Sultanate of Oman: a four-year experience with albendazole mass chemotherapy.
After 4 years of mass chemotherapy with a single annual dose of albendazole 400 mg, health education and promotion of environmental health, the prevalence of Necator americanus in Wilayat Tagah, Dhofar, Oman was reduced from 40 to 1.3% and from 6 to 0%, respectively, among rural and urban school children. Stool samples with egg load >1000 egg/gm were reduced from 28 to 0% after the first year of intervention and maintained as such in subsequent years.
Idris
M A
MA
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman. midris@squ.edu.om
Shaban
M A
MA
Fatahallah
M
M
D000293:Adolescent; D015766:Albendazole / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000818:Animals; D000969:Antinematodal Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D017221:Necator americanus / Q000187:drug effects; D009332:Necatoriasis / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009850:Oman / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence
D000969:Antinematodal Agents; D015766:Albendazole