What did the researchers do and find?
WORMS
We performed a randomized clinical trial that compared a triple drug combination with a standard of care two-drug treatment that is widely used in Africa. We found that the new treatment was as safe as the standard treatment.More importantly, analysis of adult female worms surgically removed from study participants suggested that the new treatment might be more effective than the standard treatment for killing or permanently sterilizing the parasites. However, this first study was too small to provide conclusive results.