The pentavalent antimonial therapy
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Sharon Rose Aragão Macedo , Larissa Deadame de Figueiredo Nicolete , Amália dos Santos Ferreira , Neuza Biguinati de Barros , Roberto Nicolete ⁎ a Laboratório de Biotecnologia Aplicada à Saúde, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz Rondônia), BR-364, Km 3,5, 76812-245 Porto Velho, RO, Brazil b Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biologia Experimental (PGBioexp), Universidade Federal de Rondônia, BR-364, Km 9,5, 76801-059 Porto Velho, RO, Brazil c Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Biotecnologia da Amazônia Legal (Bionorte), BR-364, Km 5,5, 76815-800 Porto Velho, RO, Brazil
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