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Hycanthone in a single dose of 3.3 mg/kg of body weight was used to treal mansoni schistosomiasis in 597 persons (83%) of the population of the endemic vilage of Canabrava. Ninety two patients received a 2nd course 14 months later. There was one death em the 2nd treatment. The cure rate after one stool examination was smaller after the 2ni treatment in comparison with the first one. Re-infections did not occur imediately after the treatment. Three years later the prevalence of persons passing eggs through one stool examination was 19% compared to the 46.3% before the treatment. Adults are more resistant to the re-infections than younger.

Thick blood films and malaria indirect fluorescent antibody test (P. falciparum and P. vivax) were done in four different regions in Amazonas. There was a very low prevalence of parasites anã the antibody rates suggest a small amount of transmission and that P. vivax was the predominant parasite. The calculation of probability of being infected per year was about 8% in Tefé. Coari, Colonia Fernanão Costa and Labrea and 0.8% in Anori.Os autores fizeram pesquisa de hematozoário e reação de imuno-fluorescência indireta (P. vivax e P. falciparum) em 922 pessoas vivendo em Tefé, Coari, Anori, Colônia Fernando Costa (Roraima) e Lábrea. Verificaram que a transmissão da malária era baixa e que havia preãominância do P. vivax. Calcularam que a probabilidaãe de se infectar em um ano era ãe 8% em Tefé, Coari, Colônia Fernanão Costa e Lábrea e ãe 0,8% em Anori