A Case-Control Study on the Association Between Intestinal Helminth Infections and Treatment Failure in Patients With Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.

Dalila Martínez MedinaAlejandro Llanos-CuentasJean-Claude DujardinKatja PolmanVanessa AdauiMarleen BoelaertKristien Verdonck

Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2020)

In the Peruvian setting, high Sb5+ treatment failure rates are not explained by intestinal helminthiasis. On the contrary, strongyloidiasis had a protective effect against treatment failure.

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combination therapy
replacement therapy