Prediction score for antimony treatment failure in patients with ulcerative leishmaniasis lesions.

• Main Authors: Cristian Valencia (Author), Jorge Arévalo (Author), Jean Claude Dujardin (Author), Alejandro Llanos-Cuentas (Author), François Chappuis (Author), Mirko Zimic (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Increased rates for failure in leishmaniasis antimony treatment have been recently recognized worldwide. Although several risk factors have been identified there is no clinical score to predict antimony therapy failure of cutaneous leishmaniasis. METHODS: A case control study was conduct...