Experience with intravenous metronidazole to treat moderate-to-severe amebiasis in Japan

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 381-385

  Kimura, Mikio ^a   Nakamura, Tetsuya ^b   Nawa, Yukifumi ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLITIS; COLON RESECTION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DARK URINE; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOORDINATION; INSOMNIA; INTESTINE INFECTION; JAPAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MALE; RENAL DYSFUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; TREMOR; URINE COLOR; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; JAPAN; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34848872528     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.381     Document Type: Article

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