Comparison between one and two injections of pentamidine isethionate, at 7 mg/kg in each injection, in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis in French Guiana

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 307-314

  Roussel, M ^a   Nacher, M ^a,b   Fremont G ^a   Rotureau, B ^a,b   Clyti, E ^a,b   Sainte Marie, D ^a   Carme, B ^a,b   Pradinaud, R ^a   Couppie P ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; PENTAMIDINE;

AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRENCH GUIANA; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHY; PAPULE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; PENTAMIDINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748989286     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485906X105561     Document Type: Article

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