stibocaptaten.
/stɪbəʊˈkapteɪt/ Pharmacology.
An antimony-containing drug used in the treatment of schistosomiasis and administered by intramuscular injection.
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1962 Trop. Dis. Bull. 59 Index 1281/1 Stibo~captate.
1967 Lancet 21 Jan. 130/2 Monthly intramuscular injections of stibocaptate 10 mg. per kg. body-weight proved to be the best treatment for Zanzibari schoolboys infected with Schistosoma hæmatobium.
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 762/2 Stibocaptate (Astiban)..is the only antimonial used for schistosomiasis in the United Kingdom.
1978 Nature 22 June 628/1 Stibocaptate (antimony dimercaptosuccinate, Astiban), one of the more than 10,000 antimonials that have been synthesised, is still on the WHO list as a complementary drug.
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