American cutaneous leishmaniasis: use of a skin test as a predictor of relapse after treatment
While relapses following clinical cure of American cutaneous leishmaniasis are frequent, no test has been described until now to predict such relapses. A cohort of 318 American cutaneous leishmaniasis patients was followed up for two years after treatment with meglumine antimoniate, during which tim...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The World Health Organization
2000-08-01
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| Series: | Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862000000800006&lng=en&tlng=en |