Clofazimine is a highly lipophilic antimicrobial riminophenazine dye used in combination with other agents, such as dapsone, for the treatment of leprosy. It was originally described in 1957 and was the prototypical riminophenazine dye - a bright-red dye that, in its clinical use, results in long-lasting discoloration of the skin and bodily fluids. Although ...
Clofazimine is indicated for the treatment of lepromatous leprosy, including dapsone-resistant lepromatous leprosy and lepromatous leprosy complicated by erythema nodosum leprosum. To prevent the development of drug resistance, it should be used only in combination with other antimycobacterial leprosy treatments.
Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and Tuberculosis hospital, Minsk, Belarus
Sh Alimov Republican Specialised Scientific-Practical Medical Centre for Phthysiology and Pulmonology Hospital, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Helen Jospeh Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa
National Lung Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
De La Salle Health Sciences Institute, Dasmariรฑas, Philippines
Saiful Anwar Hospital, Malang, Indonesia
Joint Clinical Research Centre, Mbarara, Uganda
Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda
Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme (MLW), Blantyre, Malawi
National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado, United States
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, United States
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo Parque Historia de la Medicina, Lima, Peru
National Center for Tuberculosis Problems, Almaty, Kazakhstan
National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia
King DinuZulu Hospital, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Republican TB Hospital No. 2, Nukus, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and Tuberculosis hospital, Minsk, Belarus
Armauer Hanssen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
St. Peter's Tuberculosis Specializes Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
JSC National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Tbilisi, Georgia
Cebu Skin Clinic, Cebu, Vesayas, Philippines
Kaiser Permanente, Irvine, California, United States
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