Clin Infect Dis. 2005 Sep 1;41(5):748-51. Epub 2005 Jul 19.

Eflornithine is safer than melarsoprol for the treatment of second-stage Trypanosoma brucei gambiense human African trypanosomiasis.

Chappuis F, Udayraj N, Stietenroth K, Meussen A, Bovier PA.

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Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland. francois.chappuis@hcuge.ch

Abstract

Patients with second-stage human African trypanosomiasis treated with eflornithine (n = 251) in 2003 in Kiri, southern Sudan, had an adjusted relative risk of death of 0.2 and experienced significantly fewer cutaneous and neurological adverse effects than did patients who were treated with melarsoprol in 2001 and 2002 (n = 708).

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