Failure at inducing resistance to schistosomicidal drugs in a Brazilian human strain of Schistosoma mansoni

Dias, L.C.; Olivier, C.E.

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo 28(5): 352-357

1986


ISSN/ISBN: 0036-4665
PMID: 3589395
Document Number: 270343
In this work, an attempt was made to inducing resistance to 3 schistosomicidal drugs in a Brazilian strain of Schistosoma mansoni, according to the Type II resistance induction scheme proposed by JANSMA et al. in 1977. Three attempts were unsuccessful. The parental generation treated with the drug during the immature stage of the worm was less susceptible to the chemotherapeutic agents than generations F1 and F2. A hypothesis is suggested as an explanation.

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