Current Drug Therapy of Protozoal Diarrhoea

Indian Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-58

  Gupta, Y K ^a   Gupta, Madhur ^b   Aneja, S ^c   Kohli, K ^b  

^a CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

^b LADY HARDINGE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^c KALAWATI SARAN CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Amoebiasis; Diarrhoea; Giardiasis; Metronidazole; Protozoa; Tinidazole

Indexed keywords

5 NITROIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; 8 QUINOLINOL; CHLOROQUINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIIODOHYDROXYQUIN; DILOXANIDE FUROATE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MEPACRINE; METRONIDAZOLE; NIMORAZOLE; ORNIDAZOLE; PAROMOMYCIN; SECNIDAZOLE; SEIROGAN; TINIDAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMEBIASIS; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONVULSION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DIZZINESS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GIARDIASIS; GLOSSITIS; HEADACHE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INDIA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STOMATITIS; TASTE DISORDER; URTICARIA; VERTIGO; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 1142310848     PISSN: 00195456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02725657     Document Type: Review

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