Unresponsiveness to Glucantime treatment in Iranian cutaneous leishmaniasis due to drug-resistant Leishmania tropica parasites.

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Published in PLoS Med on April 18, 2006

Authors

Ramtin Hadighi1, Mehdi Mohebali, Patrick Boucher, Homa Hajjaran, Ali Khamesipour, Marc Ouellette

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1: School of Public Health and Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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