An overview of the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis

Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by species of Leishmania, with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, such as cutaneous, visceral, and mucocutaneous presentations. Many drugs are used for its treatment, and a current effective one is a pentavalent antimonial, especially in...

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Autores principales: Garza-Tovar, Talissa F, Sacriste-Hernández, Marco I, Juárez-Durán, Eder R, Arenas, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Faculty Opinions Ltd 2020
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7886081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33659960
http://dx.doi.org/10.12703/r/9-28
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description Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by species of Leishmania, with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, such as cutaneous, visceral, and mucocutaneous presentations. Many drugs are used for its treatment, and a current effective one is a pentavalent antimonial, especially in developing countries. In this review, we discuss recent proposed therapies as well as their side effects.
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spelling pubmed-78860812021-03-02 An overview of the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis Garza-Tovar, Talissa F Sacriste-Hernández, Marco I Juárez-Durán, Eder R Arenas, Roberto Fac Rev Review Article Leishmaniasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by species of Leishmania, with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations, such as cutaneous, visceral, and mucocutaneous presentations. Many drugs are used for its treatment, and a current effective one is a pentavalent antimonial, especially in developing countries. In this review, we discuss recent proposed therapies as well as their side effects. Faculty Opinions Ltd 2020-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7886081/ /pubmed/33659960 http://dx.doi.org/10.12703/r/9-28 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Arenas R et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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