[The efficacy of the 1-day treatment of enterobiasis with medamine].

The Soviet anthelminthic agent medamine has been synthesized at the Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, USSR Ministry of Public Health and the Institute of Plant Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR and is produced at the Tashkent Chemical Pharmaceutical Plant. It is used for one-day treatment of enterobiasis which is to be repeated in 2-3 weeks. A daily drug dose is 10 mg per kg body weight, given 3 times a day after meals. The efficacy of therapy was 92 +/- 4% and 100 +/- 2% after the first and second course of treatment, respectively.