Treatment of visceral leishmaniasis with sodium stibogluconate in Sudan: Management of those who do not respond

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 151-158

  Khalil, E A G ^a   El Hassan, A M ^a   Zijlstra, E E ^a   Hashim, F A ^a   Ibrahim, M E ^b   Ghalib, H W ^a   Ali, M S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

^b National Health Laboratory Sudan   (Sudan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTILEISHMANIAL AGENT; PENTAMIDINE; STEROL; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SPLENECTOMY; SUDAN; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIMONY SODIUM GLUCONATE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; SPLENECTOMY; SUDAN; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031910120     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00034989859988     Document Type: Article

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