Meanings
- uncountablemedicineAn antimicrobial drug that is used to treat leprosy.
In the 1960s and 1970s chemoprophylaxis with dapsone and acedapsone was investigated.
2010, Roger G. Finch, Antibiotic and Chemotherapy, page 4792 more examples
We report here the successful use of a new repository sulphone, acedapsone, in a field trial in Micronesia, both for the treatment of active leprosy cases and for the prevention of leprosy in an exposed, highly susceptible population.
1971 September 4, The Lancet, volume 2, number 7723, page 525The more intense effect arises, of course, from the relatively facile non-enzymatic hydrolysis of these compounds as opposed to the enzyme-dependent hydrolysis of acedapsone.
2011, R. M. Pinder, “Recent advances in the chemotherapy of malaria”, in Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, volume 8
Origin
Translations
Portuguese acedapsona
- acedapsonaantimicrobial drug that is used to treat leprosy
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