Fitness of Leishmania donovani parasites resistant to drug combinations.

Drug resistance represents one of the main problems for the use of chemotherapy to treat leishmaniasis. Additionally, it could provide some advantages to Leishmania parasites, such as a higher capacity to survive in stress conditions. In this work, in mixed populations of Leishmania donovani parasit...

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Main Authors: Raquel García-Hernández, Verónica Gómez-Pérez, Santiago Castanys, Francisco Gamarro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-04-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4388546?pdf=render