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Chemotherapy of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: a Review by Byron Arana; Nidia Rizzo; Anaite Diaz is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Chemotherapy of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: a Review about?
A wide variety of treatment modalities have been employed for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL); however, none has been demonstrated to be good enough to be used as the ®rst-line drug to treat patients in all the CL epidemiological scenarios. Although pentavalent antimonials remain a drug widely used in the treatment of all forms of leishmaniasis, they are far from being satisfactory. A great variety of topical treatments have been used to treat CL. However, the majority of these modalities have been tested in non-controlled studies, with only few subjects and the interpretation of results is usually dicult due to the lack of a standard and wellaccepted cure de®nition. Several oral drugs, such as ketoconazole and itraconazole, have also been tested for CL, but results obtained were not completely satisfactory. As of today, miltefosine, originally developed as an oral antineoplastic agent, seems, from the preliminary results obtained in dierent phase II clinical studies, to be the most promising oral drug developed during the last decade.
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- Author
- Byron Arana; Nidia Rizzo; Anaite Diaz
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)