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PLoS Negl Trop Dis
; 10(1): e0004304, 2016 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26735920
RESUMO
We report on 4 patients (1 immunocompetent, 3 immunosuppressed) in whom visceral leishmaniasis had become unresponsive to (or had relapsed after) treatment with appropriate doses of liposomal amphotericin B. Under close follow-up, full courses of pentavalent antimony were administered without life-threatening adverse events and resulted in rapid and sustained clinical and parasitological cure.