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Heavy infections with the tiny flukes heterophyids can cause intestinal pain and mucous diarrhea, thus the study of praziquantel (Pzq) and the new drug cyclosporin A (CsA) as antiparasitic drugs were undertaken in this work, as well as the effect of matecercarial and adult antigens as immunizing agents. To assess the result of our work, the number and length of the recovered heterophyids were studied. Description of the surface by SEM was carried out for the groups: treated by cyclosporin A and immunized by adult heterophyid antigen (third fraction) which gave the highest percentage reduction.
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PMID:Heterophyids: experimental chemotherapy and immunotherapy. 150 Jul 78