Originally Posted By: Susan
This is from the book Leishmania by Jay Farrell, that I found online.

"Organic pentavalent antimony in the form of sodium antimony gluconate has been used since the 1940s. Two such preparations, sodium stibogluconate and meglumine antimoniate have been used over three decades as first line VL chemotherapy. Current penavalent antimony preparations include sodium stibogulconate, available as Pentostam (Wellcome Foundation Ltd., London) and meglumine antimoniate, available as Glucantime (...France, Brazil) that is used mostly in South America." (It goes on to say there are a couple of mfgrs. in India and at least one in China.)


Thanks for doing the research! This is very interesting. Anything bad enough to have a whole book devoted to it, with a title that ends in -mania, is definitely not something you'd want to get.

Now, I've got these year-old bug bites that don't want to go away. The doctors don't have an explanation for this. I hope you guys won't end up reading about me.

Da Bing