Visceral Leishmaniasis Treatment, Italy

Gradoni, Luigi; Gramiccia, Marina; Scalone, Aldo

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Visceral Leishmaniasis Treatment, Italy

Published Date:

Dec 2003

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http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0912.030178 New Site Icon

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Emerg Infect Dis. 9(12):1617-1620.

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Gradoni, Luigi ; Gramiccia, Marina ; Scalone, Aldo ;

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First-line drug treatment was recorded in 573 immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis in Italy. In the past 12 years, the proportion of antimonial treatments decreased from 100% to 2.8%, while the proportion of amphotericin B treatments increased from 0% to 97.2%. The countrywide change in therapy is a response to both disease reemergence and increasing antimonial failure.

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