dapsone

NOUN
  1. antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases

How To Use dapsone In A Sentence

  • Skin lesions in linear IgA dermatosis and chronic bullous disease of childhood respond rapidly when treated with dapsone or sulfapyridine.
  • The Post reports that the wealth of information on the Internet has helped erode some of the stigma of the disease, which is easily treatable where the anti-leprosy drugs dapsone and rifampin are available. Old myths about leprosy still around
  • The non infectious, paucibacillary form of leprosy is treated with dapsone and rifampicin, and the less common, infectious multibacillary form with a combination of all three drugs.
  • Chemotherapy for leprosy generally includes dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine, which themselves may affect genetic damage in treated leprosy patients.
  • The sulfone antibiotic dapsone often is recommended, although no prospective trials support its use for bites in humans.
  • · In the 1960s, M. leprae started to develop resistance to dapsone, the world’s only known anti-leprosy drug. Chapter 2
  • There are also studies on the combination of the short half-life antifolates, chloroproguanil and dapsone, and on pyronaridine, a Chinese synthetic compound. Chapter 2
  • Aerosolized pentamidine and dapsone are believed to be safe during pregnancy; however, pyrimethamine should be used with caution.
  • MDT consists of three drugs: dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine. Chapter 2
  • - If severe anaemia or leucopenia develops, stop treatment and replace dapsone with another Chapter 4
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