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Resistance to treatment in Kala-azar: speciation of isolates from northeast India.
1 Sept 2001
Abstract excerpt
Kala-azar in India is becoming increasingly difficult to treat, which may be due to the presence of species other than Leishmania donovani; Leishmania tropica was reported to cause the same clinical syndrome in the area. Over the past 3 years, we have collected samples from 241 patients with visceral leishmaniasis from across the region. Of the 189 isolates that grew on diphasic medium, 159 were successfully...
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