Arsenic Exposure and Outcomes of Antimonial Treatment in Visceral Leishmaniasis Patients in Bihar, India: A Retrospective Cohort Study
The parasitic disease visceral leishmaniasis (VL) causes a significant burden of illness and death in India. The main drug used to treat VL, which is based on the chemical element antimony, stopped working well in about half of all patients in the late twentieth century. We hypothesised that arsenic...
Main Authors: | Perry, Meghan R., Prajapati, Vijay K., Menten, Joris, Raab, Andrea, Feldmann, Joerg, Chakraborti, Dipankar, Sundar, Shyam, Fairlamb, Alan H., Boelaert, Marleen, Picado, Albert |
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4346263/ |
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