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. 2003 Dec;9(12):1617-20.
doi: 10.3201/eid0912.030178.

Visceral leishmaniasis treatment, Italy

Luigi Gradoni  1 , Marina Gramiccia, Aldo Scalone
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Visceral leishmaniasis treatment, Italy

Luigi Gradoni et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Dec.

Abstract

First-line drug treatment was recorded in 573 immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis in Italy. In the past 12 years, the proportion of antimonial treatments decreased from 100% to 2.8%, while the proportion of amphotericin B treatments increased from 0% to 97.2%. The countrywide change in therapy is a response to both disease reemergence and increasing antimonial failure.

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Figure 1
Reemergence of zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in Italy: human cases recorded from 1987 through 2001 by passive repots and active surveillance.
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Figure 2
Annual proportion of immunocompetent patients with visceral leishmaniasis treated with meglumine antimoniate (MA) or amphotericin B (AmB) in the period 1995–2001.
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