Pediatrics: ridding children of common worm infections

Postgraduate Medicine
R B Tudor

Abstract

The most common worm infection in children in the United States is pinworm infection. In second place is roundworm infection. Agents that are effective against these nematodes in a high proportion of cases are available. In hookworm disease, generally seen in older children, tetrachloroethylene treatment is being supplanted by use of drugs less likely to have adverse side effect. Visceral larva migrans is difficult to diagnose and to treat, and our best hope for control lies in prevention.

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Nov 19, 1970·The New England Journal of Medicine·E B RosenbergS G Johansson

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