Prescription of concomitant medications in patients treated with Nifurtimox Eflornithine Combination Therapy (NECT) for T.b. gambiense second stage sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• Main Authors: Andrea Kuemmerle (Author), Caecilia Schmid (Author), Victor Kande (Author), Wilfried Mutombo (Author), Medard Ilunga (Author), Ismael Lumpungu (Author), Sylvain Mutanda (Author), Pathou Nganzobo (Author), Digas Ngolo (Author), Mays Kisala (Author), Olaf Valverde Mordt (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Nifurtimox eflornithine combination therapy (NECT) to treat human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly called sleeping sickness, was added to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Essential Medicines List in 2009 and to the Paediatric List in 2012. NECT was further tested and docu...