Failure of Pentavalent Antimony in Visceral Leishmaniasis in India: Report from the Center of the Indian Epidemic

Sundar, Shyam; K. More, Deepak; Kumar Singh, Manoj; P. Singh, Vijay; Sharma, Sashi; Makharia, Anand; C. K. Kumar, Prasanna; W. Murray, Henry

doi:10.1086/318121

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Failure of Pentavalent Antimony in Visceral Leishmaniasis in India: Report from the Center of the Indian Epidemic

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • Oct 1, 2000

Authors:

Shyam Sundar

Deepak K. More

Manoj Kumar Singh

Abstract

In India, 320 patients with visceral leishmaniasis (209 in the state of Bihar and 11 in the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh) received identical pentavalent antimony (Sb) treatment. Sb induced long-term cure in 35% (95% confidence interval [CI], 28%-42%) of those in Bihar versus 86% (95% CI, 79%-9...

Subject

Uttar pradesh

Medicine

Visceral leishmaniasis

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