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- noun medicine An
antiprotozoal drug, 2-(hexadecoxy-oxido-phosphoryl)oxyethyl-trimethyl-azanium, used in oral treatment ofleishmaniasis .
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In the last decade, with funds from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other sources, scientists have experimented with other drug combinations, including amphotericin B, a fungicide derived from bacteria, and miltefosine, which was developed in the 1980s to treat
NYT > Home Page By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. 2011
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