Arsenic exposure and outcomes of antimonial treatment in visceral leishmaniasis patients in Bihar, India: a retrospective cohort study.

• Hoofdauteurs: Meghan R Perry (Auteur), Vijay K Prajapati (Auteur), Joris Menten (Auteur), Andrea Raab (Auteur), Joerg Feldmann (Auteur), Dipankar Chakraborti (Auteur), Shyam Sundar (Auteur), Alan H Fairlamb (Auteur), Marleen Boelaert (Auteur), Albert Picado (Auteur)
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• Gepubliceerd in: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:In the late twentieth century, emergence of high rates of treatment failure with antimonial compounds (SSG) for visceral leishmaniasis (VL) caused a public health crisis in Bihar, India. We hypothesize that exposure to arsenic through drinking contaminated groundwater may be associated wi...