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Miltefosine is used in treatment of:

A
Malaria
B
Typhus fever
C
Kala azar
D
Chicken pox
High-Yield Explanation
Miltefosine (hexadecylphosphocholine) is an oral drug that was originally studied as an antitumor agent. Subsequent to the serendipitous laboratory finding that miltefosine was active against Leishmania in vitro and, after oral administration in laboratory animals, the drug was developed in a public-private panership for the treatment of visceral leishmaniasis or kala-azar. Ref:

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