Doxycycline for Mansonella perstans infection

N Engl J Med. 2010 Jan 21;362(3):272; author reply 272-3. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc0910675.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Doxycycline / therapeutic use*
  • Drug Resistance
  • Drug Therapy, Combination
  • Elephantiasis, Filarial / drug therapy
  • Filaricides / therapeutic use*
  • Humans
  • Mansonella / drug effects*
  • Mansonella / genetics
  • Mansonelliasis / complications
  • Mansonelliasis / drug therapy*
  • Rickettsiaceae Infections / complications
  • Rickettsiaceae Infections / drug therapy*
  • Wolbachia / genetics
  • Wuchereria bancrofti / isolation & purification

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Filaricides
  • Doxycycline