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Arsenic Exposure and Outcomes of Antimonial Treatment in Visceral Leishmaniasis Patients in Bihar, India: A Retrospective Cohort Study
BACKGROUND: In the late twentieth century, emergence of high rates of treatment failure with antimonial compounds (SSG) for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused a public health crisis in Bihar, India. We hypothesize that exposure to arsenic through drinking contaminated groundwater may be associated w...
Autores principales: | Perry, Meghan R., Prajapati, Vijay K., Menten, Joris, Raab, Andrea, Feldmann, Joerg, Chakraborti, Dipankar, Sundar, Shyam, Fairlamb, Alan H., Boelaert, Marleen, Picado, Albert |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4346263/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25730310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003518 |
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