Tinidazole in treatment of amoebic liver abscess in children.
Tinidazole as a single drug therapy given in a single dose daily for 5 or 3 days was put to rigorous test in malnourished children. Of 25 children with amoebic liver abscess, 23 were cured. The 2 remaining cases required surgical drainage followed by other amoebicides, one subsequently dying from complicating bronchopneumonia.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008101:Liver Abscess, Amebic / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D009593:Nitroimidazoles / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000150:complications; D014011:Tinidazole / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D009593:Nitroimidazoles; D014011:Tinidazole