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Pentamidine

An antimicrobial of the aromatic diamidine family, used since 1937 against African sleeping sickness and since 1940 against leishmaniasis; today it also treats and prevents Pneumocystis pneumonia and is on the WHO List of Essential Medicines. This family brings together other impurities.

Did you know?In the early 1980s an unusual rise in requests for pentamidine to the US CDC, to treat Pneumocystis pneumonia in young men, helped to reveal the emergence of AIDS.

EDQM standards 1

The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.

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