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Vermox

 [ver´moks]
trademark for a preparation of mebendazole, an anthelmintic.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

mebendazole

A systemic anthelmintic agent that interferes with glucose metabolism, which is used to manage ascariasis (roundworms), enterobiasis, oxyuriasis (pinworms), trichuriasis (whipworms) and uncinariasis (hookworm).
 
Adverse effects
Fever, rash, itching, sore throat, asthenia.
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Vermox®

Mebendazole, see there.
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Vermox

A brand name for the anthelmintic drug MEBENDAZOLE.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
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Mebendazole (Vermox) is also teratogenic in rats at doses about equal to the dose in humans, but not in other animal species.
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