An old drug and different ways to treat cutaneous leishmaniasis: Intralesional and intramuscular meglumine antimoniate in a reference center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• Main Authors: Carla Oliveira-Ribeiro (Author), Maria Inês Fernandes Pimentel (Author), Liliane de Fátima Antonio Oliveira (Author), Érica de Camargo Ferreira E Vasconcellos (Author), Fatima Conceição-Silva (Author), Armando de Oliveira Schubach (Author), Aline Fagundes (Author), Cintia Xavier de Mello (Author), Eliame Mouta-Confort (Author), Luciana de Freitas Campos Miranda (Author), Claudia Maria Valete-Rosalino (Author), Ana Cristina da Costa Martins (Author), Raquel de Vasconcellos Carvalhaes de Oliveira (Author), Leonardo Pereira Quintella (Author), Marcelo Rosandiski Lyra (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) remains challenging since the drugs currently used are quite toxic, thus contributing to lethality unrelated to the disease itself but to adverse events (AE). The main objective was to evaluate different treatment regimens with...