el Kholy A, Boutros S, Tamara F, Warren K S, Mahmoud A A
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 1984 Nov;33(6):1170-2. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.1984.33.1170.
Egyptian school children infected with Schistosoma haematobium and treated with a single dose of metrifonate, 10 mg/kg body weight, had a marked reduction in urine egg counts reaching 90% during a 30-week follow-up. While cure rate was higher among lightly infected persons, percentage reduction in egg counts was greater among the heavily infected. After a summer period of probable high risk exposure reinfection rate in those children who were treated and cured was 4.7% as compared to 6% in previously uninfected children.
