Etiological drug treatment of human infection by Trypanosoma cruzi Tratamento etiológico por droga da infecção humana pelo Trypanosoma cruzi

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Guido Carlos Levi, Isa Maria Fraga Lobo, Esper Georges Kallás, Vicente Amato Neto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1996
• Subjects: Chronic Chagas' disease; Antiparasitic treatment; Benznidazole; Nifurtimox; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Droga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651996000100007; https://doaj.org/article/d43063417707490693aac59bee335dfb

Forty-nine American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' disease) patients, with xenodiagnosis proven parasitemia were treated by the authors. Forty-one of these patients were given benznidazole, at dosages ranging from 5mg/kg/day to 8mg/kg/day, during a pre-established period of 60 days. In this group, 17...