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In-Hospital Safety in Field Conditions of Nifurtimox Eflornithine Combination Therapy (NECT) for T. b. gambiense Sleeping Sickness

BACKGROUND: Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT; sleeping sickness) is a fatal disease. Until 2009, available treatments for 2(nd) stage HAT were complicated to use, expensive (eflornithine monotherapy), or toxic, and insufficiently effective in certain areas (mela...

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Autores principales: Schmid, Caecilia, Kuemmerle, Andrea, Blum, Johannes, Ghabri, Salah, Kande, Victor, Mutombo, Wilfried, Ilunga, Medard, Lumpungu, Ismael, Mutanda, Sylvain, Nganzobo, Pathou, Tete, Digas, Mubwa, Nono, Kisala, Mays, Blesson, Severine, Mordt, Olaf Valverde
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3510081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23209861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001920