Experimental therapy of schistosomiasis. X. Diaminodiphenylsulfone (DDS) in experimental schistosomiasis
Pellegrino, J.; Katz, N.
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo 17(3): 199-205
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0036-4665 PMID: 1135570 Document Number: 83026
During a blind screeing for potential antischistosomal agents it was observed that diaminodiphenylsulfone (DDS) interferes with the egg-laying of Schistosoma mansoni in mice, hamsters and Cebus monkeys experimentally infected. In mice the activity was evident when DDS was administered in the diet at a concentration as low as 0.05%. The activity was transitory, disappearing soon after the drug was withdrawn. A parasitologic survey among lepers under specific treatment revealed a low index of infection by helminths. The treatment by DDS of lepers harboring S. mansoni infection and other intestinal helminths was ineffective.