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- noun A
drug used to treatsleeping sickness .
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Examples
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They needed stronger stuff that could kill the parasite outright in their brain—a brutal potion known as melarsoprol.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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They needed stronger stuff that could kill the parasite outright in their brain—a brutal potion known as melarsoprol.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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They needed stronger stuff that could kill the parasite outright in their brain—a brutal potion known as melarsoprol.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Previous treatments for sleeping sickness included melarsoprol, which is painful and toxic, killing five percent of those who receive it.
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Until now the drug melarsoprol was used to treat patients in the advanced stage of sleeping sickness.
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Until now the drug melarsoprol was used to treat patients in the advanced stage of sleeping sickness.
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If melarsoprol seeps out of a vein, it can turn the surrounding flesh into a swollen, painful mass; then, at the very least the drugs have to be stopped for a few days, and at worst the arm may have to be amputated.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The nurses gave him injections of melarsoprol for three days, and the medicine wiped out a fair number of the trypanosomes in his brain and spine.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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If melarsoprol seeps out of a vein, it can turn the surrounding flesh into a swollen, painful mass; then, at the very least the drugs have to be stopped for a few days, and at worst the arm may have to be amputated.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The nurses gave him injections of melarsoprol for three days, and the medicine wiped out a fair number of the trypanosomes in his brain and spine.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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