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Stage-Specific Activity of Pentavalent Antimony against <i>Leishmania donovani</i> Axenic Amastigotes
1 Feb 1999
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The standard treatment of human visceral leishmaniasis involves the use of pentavalent antimony (SbV) compounds. In recent years increasing numbers of clinical failures of treatment with SbV have been reported, probably due to the development of parasite resistance to this compound. The mode of action and mechanisms of resistance to SbV have not been fully elucidated. In the present study an axenic amastigote...
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