Treatment of giardiasis with tinidazole.
Fifty-five patients, 51 males and 4 females heavily infected with Giardia lamblia were treated with a single 2 g dose of tinidazole (four tablets); 53 were cured. Of 20 other infected patients kept under the same conditions and given four placebo tablets, 18 continued to pass cysts or trophozoites in the stools during the whole 3- to 4-wk follow-up period in hospital. There were no side effects attributed to the drug.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009593:Nitroimidazoles / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014011:Tinidazole / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D009593:Nitroimidazoles; D014011:Tinidazole