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ArticleJournal of veterinary internal medicine

Positive clinical outcome using a modified dosing regimen of benznidazole in dogs at high risk for infection or acutely infected with Trypanosoma cruzi.

Sukjung Lim, Stephanie Collins, Sarah A Hamer, Rick L Tarleton, Ashley B Saunders

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Article in Journal of veterinary internal medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sukjung LimDepartment of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1817-0089
Stephanie CollinsJourdanton, Texas, USA.
Sarah A HamerDepartment of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Research, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Rick L TarletonCenter for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases and Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Ashley B SaundersDepartment of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9908-3894
Texas College · USTexas A&M University · USUniversity of Georgia · US

Funding

UT Southwestern Center for Translational MedicineUL1TR003163 · NCATS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI TOTO, ROBERT DANIEL · 2021 to 2025
$39.3M
American Veterinary Medical FoundationGeorge Robinson FoundationNCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR003163NIH HHS 1UL1TR003163-01A1Veterinary Pharmacology Research Foundation
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trypanosoma cruzi infection in dogs can cause heart failure and sudden death with few treatment options available. A litter of 4 dogs living in a T cruzi endemic area were randomized to prophylaxis and nonprophylaxis groups as part of a study evaluating a modified benznidazole dosing regimen administered twice weekly to prevent T cruzi infection during a vector transmission season. The 2 dogs that received prophylaxis remained healthy without T cruzi infection or cardiac disease for >2 years. One dog that did not receive prophylaxis died unexpectedly with acute T cruzi-induced pancarditis, and the second dog tested positive for T cruzi and developed complex arrhythmias with markedly increased cardiac troponin I and improved with a higher benznidazole treatment dose. Although the small sample size precludes definitive conclusions, we describe the potential clinical benefit of prophylactic and early treatment with modified benznidazole dosing regimens for dogs with T cruzi infection.

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Chagas DiseaseDog DiseasesNitroimidazolesTrypanocidal AgentsTrypanosoma cruziAnimalsDogsFemaleMalebenzonidazoleNitroimidazolesTrypanocidal AgentsChagas diseasemyocarditisprophylaxissudden deathtroponin

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PMID38500407
PMCPMC11099705
OpenAlexW4392963798

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