Therapy of Venezuelan patients with severe mucocutaneous or early lesions of diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis with a vaccine containing pasteurized Leishmania promastigotes and bacillus Calmette-Guerin: preliminary report

Therapy of Venezuelan patients with severe mucocutaneous or early lesions of diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis with a vaccine containing pasteurized Leishmania promastigotes and bacillus Calmette-Guerin: preliminary report

Severe mucocutaneous (MCL) and diffuse (DCL) forms of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) are infrequent in Venezuela. Chemotherapy produces only transitory remission in DCL, and occasional treatment failures are observed in MCL. We have evaluated therapy with an experimental vaccine in patients...

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Main Authors: Jacinto Convit, Marian Ulrich, María Argelia Polegre, Angela Avila, Noris Rodríguez, Maria Ilina Mazzedo, Belkis Blanco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2004-02-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Subjects:
immunotherapy
diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis
mucocutaneous leishmaniasis
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762004000100010

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