Antimony resistance and environment: Elusive links to explore during Leishmania life cycle.
- Autores: Ait-Oudhia K, Maia C, Sereno D
- Journal: International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance
- Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Antimony+resistance+and+environment%3A+elusive+links+to+explore+during+Leishmania+life+cycle.
Leishmania drug resistance and particularly antimony resistance still continues to emerge in different part of the world. Because visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis are transmitted in foci with zoonotic or anthroponotic life-cycles, the link between chemotherapeutic resistance and the selection for drug resistance, through drug consumption, cannot be as obvious for all forms of leishmaniasis.
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