Clinical and treatment-related predictors of failure of pentavalent antimonial therapy for cutaneous leishmaniasis: a systematic review.
BACKGROUND Pentavalent antimonials remain widely used for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL), but treatment failure prolongs disease and increases patient burden. We synthesized routinely available clinical and treatment-related predictors of antimonial failure. METHODS PubMed/MEDLINE and Europe PMC were searched through 1...