Safety profile of nifurtimox and treatment interruption for chronic chagas disease in Colombian adults

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1224-1230

  Olivera, Mario Javier ^a,b   Cucunubá, Zulma M ^a,b   Álvarez, Carlos Arturo ^a,c,d   Nicholls, Rubén Santiago ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^b Red Chagas Colombia   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^d Clinica Universitaria Colombia   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; NIFURTIMOX; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMNESIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASTHENIA; BLOATING; CHAGAS DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLOMBIAN; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPHAGIA; EOSINOPHILIA; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCREASED APPETITE; LEUKOPENIA; LOSS OF APPETITE; LYMPHOCYTOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYALGIA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPHILIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRURITUS; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ABRASION; SLEEP DISORDER; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; URTICARIA; VERTIGO; VESICULAR RASH; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLOMBIA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; CHAGAS DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLOMBIA; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIFURTIMOX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949673066     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.15-0256     Document Type: Article

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