Successful treatment of a married couple for American leishmaniasis with miltefosine [18]

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 258-259

  Wöhrl, Stefan ^a   Schnedl, J ^b   Auer, H ^c   Walochnik, J ^c   Stingl, G ^a   Geusau, A ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^b Military Hospital Vienna   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MILTEFOSINE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COSTA RICA; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ECTHYMA; FEMALE; HISTIOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEISHMANIA BRAZILIENSIS; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN ULCER; SPOROTRICHOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; SKIN; SPOUSES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38349078894     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2007.02311.x     Document Type: Letter

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