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Visceral Leishmaniasis Treatment, Italy
First-line drug treatment was recorded in 573 immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis in Italy. In the past 12 years, the proportion of antimonial treatments decreased from 100% to 2.8%, while the proportion of amphotericin B treatments increased from 0% to 97.2%. The countrywide change...
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2003
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034325/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14720406 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0912.030178 |
Sumario: | First-line drug treatment was recorded in 573 immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis in Italy. In the past 12 years, the proportion of antimonial treatments decreased from 100% to 2.8%, while the proportion of amphotericin B treatments increased from 0% to 97.2%. The countrywide change in therapy is a response to both disease reemergence and increasing antimonial failure. |
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