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

• Main Authors: Meghan R Perry (Author), Vijay K Prajapati (Author), Joris Menten (Author), Andrea Raab (Author), Joerg Feldmann (Author), Dipankar Chakraborti (Author), Shyam Sundar (Author), Alan H Fairlamb (Author), Marleen Boelaert (Author), Albert Picado (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 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...