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- Title
Efficacy of 10-day melarsoprol schedule 2 years after treatment for late-stage gambiense sleeping sickness.
- Authors
Schmid, C; Nkunku, S; Merolle, A; Vounatsou, P; Burri, C
- Abstract
In 2000, we reported that a new short treatment schedule of melarsoprol was not worse than the longer and demanding standard treatment for late-stage human African trypanosomiasis. This alternative schedule was assessed in an open, randomised clinical equivalence trial of 500 patients in Angola. 24 h after treatment, all patients were parasite free. Of 442 patients, 12 (3%) had relapsed after 1 year, of whom seven (3%) had had standard treatment and five (2%) the alternative treatment. After 2 years, 23 (5%) relapsing patients were reported, 11 (5%) in the standard treatment group and 12 (6%) in the new group. The results at the 2-year follow-up support and strengthen our previous findings.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 2004, Vol 364, Issue 9436, p789
- ISSN
1474-547X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/S0140-6736(04)16940-7