| [diphyllobothrium latum infection in akita prefecture. infections occurring from 1974 to 1981 and the clinical effect of paromomycin sulfate]. | forty-one patients, aged 2 to 68 years old, infected with diphyllobothrium latum in akita prefecture were treated using paromomycin sulfate from 1974 to 1981. paromomycin sulfate was administered orally in a single dose of 20, 30 mg/kg or 50 mg/kg. twenty-three cases expelled tapeworms. however, only 9 (28.1%) out of 32 tapeworms expelled had their scolex. it can be said that all cases were successfully treated with paromomycin sulfate, since they showed the egg-negative on 3 weeks or 1 month af ... | 1983 | 6876370 |