Feasibility, drug safety, and effectiveness of etiological treatment programs for Chagas disease in Honduras, Guatemala, and Bolivia: 10-Year experience of Médecins Sans Frontières

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Yun, Oliver ^a   Lima, M Angeles ^a   Ellman, Tom ^a   Chambi, Wilma ^a   Castillo, Sandra ^a   Flevaud, Laurence ^a   Roddy, Paul ^a   Parreño, Fernando ^a   Viñas, Pedro Albajar ^b   Palma, Pedro Pablo ^a  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZNIDAZOLE; NIFURTIMOX; ANTITRYPANOSOMAL AGENT; NITROIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GUATEMALA; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HONDURAS; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRURITUS; RURAL POPULATION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROPREVALENCE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VECTOR CONTROL; ANIMAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG EFFECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BOLIVIA; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUATEMALA; HONDURAS; HUMANS; INFANT; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; NITROIMIDAZOLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPANOCIDAL AGENTS; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 70449566766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000488     Document Type: Article

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