Resistance to the main drugs used in Brazil against Leishmania is found in parasite infecting cutaneous leishmaniasis patient (IMAGE)

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Resistance to the main drugs used in Brazil against Leishmania is found in parasite infecting cutaneous leishmaniasis patient

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The researchers submitted the amphotericin B-resistant strain of L. amazonensis to two other drugs to which the patient had not been exposed: miltefosine and paromomycin 

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Elizabeth Magiolo Coser and Bianca Alves Ferreira

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