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Selection and phenotype characterization of potassium antimony tartrate-resistant populations of four New World Leishmania species.
Parasitology research - 1 Jun 2010
Liarte Daniel B, Murta Silvane M F
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, we selected in vitro populations of Leishmania Viannia guyanensis, L.V. braziliensis, L. Leishmania amazonensis and L.L. infantum chagasi that were resistant to potassium antimony tartrate (SbIII). The resistance index of these populations varied from 4- to 20-fold higher than that of their wild-type counterparts. To evaluate the stability of the resistance phenotype, these four resistant...
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