Glucantime resistant Leishmania promastigotes are sensitive to pentostam

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Spangler Andrade Moreira, Juliana Becattini Guerra, Maria de Lourdes Petrillo-Peixoto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 1992
• Subjects: Leishmania; compostos antimoniais pentavalentes; Inibição de crescimento; Infecção experimental; Leishmania Pentavalent antimonial compounds; Growth inhibition; Experimental chemotherapy; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Alta; Arctic; Droga
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1df83968975d47888bdc35fe8b344448

Growth inhibition in vitro tests were used to study the susceptibility to pentostam of different Leishmania strains involved in cutaneous and mucocutaneos leishmaniasis - one glucantime sensitive strain, three naturally glucantime resistant strains and one glucantime resistant line developed by in v...