A Critical Review on Chagas Disease Chemotherapy
In this "Critical Review" we made a historical introduction of drugs assayed against Chagas disease beginning in 1912 with the works of Mayer and Rocha Lima up to the experimental use of nitrofurazone. In the beginning of the 70s, nifurtimox and benznidazole were introduced for clinical tr...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ)
2002-01-01
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Series: | Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762002000100001 |