Treatment assessment by monitoring parasite load in skin biopsies from patients with cutaneous leishmaniasis, using quantitative nucleic acid sequence-based amplification

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 394-399

  Van Der Meide, W F ^a   Peekel, I ^a   Van Thiel, P P A M ^b   Schallig, H D F H ^a   De Vries, H J C ^b,c   Zeegelaar, J E ^b   Faber, W R ^b  

^a ROYAL TROPICAL INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MUNICIPAL HEALTH SERVICE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; MILTEFOSINE; PAROMOMYCIN; PENTAMIDINE ISETHIONATE; STIBOGLUCONATE SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE BASED AMPLIFICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-SUSTAINED SEQUENCE REPLICATION; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45149119687     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2007.02680.x     Document Type: Article

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