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IV. SOME ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF THERAPY

WILLARD H. WRIGHT, PH.D.; ELOISE B. CRAM, PH.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1937;54(6):1276-1284.

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The subject of oxyuriasis is receiving attention as a group project in the Division of Zoology, and in connection with this study considerable time has been devoted to the question of therapy. From our experience in attempting, in cooperation with physicians, to treat successfully persons infested with pinworms and to eradicate infestations from individual patients and from family groups, we propose to discuss some of the problems involved in the treatment for this condition.

The treatments for oxyuriasis recommended in the medical literature are legion, and obviously it would not be possible or desirable to attempt to ascertain by critical tests the exact value of all these therapeutic measures. Neither does it seem worth while to enumerate all the various drugs and methods of therapy recommended. Hall¹ has reviewed many of them.

The following classifications embrace most of the different methods of control described in the medical literature: treatment . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D. C.

From the Division of Zoology, National Institute of Health, United States Public Health Service.

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