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Metronidazole, sold under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication. [11] It is used either alone or with other antibiotics to treat pelvic inflammatory disease, endocarditis, and bacterial vaginosis. [11] It is effective for dracunculiasis, giardiasis, trichomoniasis, and amebiasis. [11]
Metronidazole (for vaginitis caused by Trichomonas) Tinidazole (for intestinal infections caused by Giardia lamblia ) Miltefosine (for the treatment of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis , currently undergoing investigation for Chagas disease )
Antibiotics are used to treat or prevent bacterial infections, [34] and sometimes protozoan infections. (Metronidazole is effective against a number of parasitic diseases). When an infection is suspected of being responsible for an illness but the responsible pathogen has not been identified, an empiric therapy is adopted. [35]
Metronidazole is an antibiotic with an off-label use in eradicating H. pylori for treating gastric ulceration. Resistance of metronidazole is above 15% worldwide. [ 32 ] It is likely to be resistant so is not the first line choice of treatment. [ 44 ]
Metronidazole or clindamycin: No Bacteroides species Bacteroides infection No Balantidium coli: Balantidiasis: microscopic examination of stools, or colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy Tetracycline, metronidazole or iodoquinol: No Bartonella: Bartonellosis: microscopy, serology, and PCR: Antibiotics No Baylisascaris species Baylisascaris infection No ...
He used bismuth salt and metronidazole. This treatment effectively cured his gastritis and eliminated the H. pylori infection. This is not the current eradication protocol. [citation needed] One of the first "modern" eradication protocols was a one-week triple therapy, which the Sydney gastroenterologist Thomas Borody formulated in 1987. [14]
Antiprotozoal agents (ATC code: ATC P01) is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection. A paraphyletic group , protozoans have little in common with each other. For example, Entamoeba histolytica , a unikont eukaryotic organism, is more closely related to Homo sapiens (humans), which also belongs to the unikont ...
E. histolytica infections occur in both the intestine and (in people with symptoms) in tissue of the intestine and/or liver. [2] As a result, both tissue and luminal drugs are needed to treat the infection, one for each location. Metronidazole is usually given first, followed by Paromomycin or Diloxanide.