Clinical efficacy of Saccharomyces boulardii or metronidazole in symptomatic children with Blastocystis hominis infection

Parasitology Research

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 541-545

  Dinleyici, Ener Cagri ^a   Eren, Makbule ^a   Dogan, Nihal ^a   Reyhanioglu, Serap ^a   Yargic, Zeynel Abidin ^a   Vandenplas, Yvan ^b  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; MICROBIAL PRODUCTS NOT CLASSIFIED ELSEWHERE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYSTOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT DURATION; VOMITING;

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; BLASTOCYSTIS INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; PROBIOTICS; SACCHAROMYCES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLASTOCYSTIS; BLASTOCYSTIS HOMINIS; SACCHAROMYCES BOULARDII;

EID: 79955941227     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-010-2095-4     Document Type: Article

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