Experience with roxithromycin in visceral leishmaniasis in North Bihar

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 615-617

  Lal, S K ^a   Lal, Rakesh ^b   Lal, Sarita ^c   Lal, Rajeev ^d   Lal, B N ^e  

^a Vidya Clinic   (India)

^b CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c JLN Medical College   (India)

^d PATNA MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^e Darbhanga Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROXITHROMYCIN; SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030225129     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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