RESUMO
Metronidazole is the drug of choice for invasive amoebiasis; however, it is not known whether its dose or duration require modification in HIV infection when treating invasive amoebiasis. Seven HIV-positive patients with acute phase amoebic liver abscess were treated with daily oral administration of 1500 mg of metronidazole for 10 days. None of the patients required abscess drainage, and metronidazole was effective in all patients without serious side-effects. The CD4 cell count or HIV viral load did not appear to influence the efficacy of metronidazole therapy.
Assuntos
Infecções Oportunistas Relacionadas com a AIDS/tratamento farmacológico , Amebicidas/uso terapêutico , Abscesso Hepático Amebiano/tratamento farmacológico , Metronidazol/uso terapêutico , Infecções Oportunistas Relacionadas com a AIDS/parasitologia , Adulto , Contagem de Linfócito CD4 , Humanos , Abscesso Hepático Amebiano/complicações , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Carga ViralRESUMO
Epidemiological data on food-borne parasitic zoonoses in Japan is obscure because of the lack of legislated registration system for the incidence of such diseases. Attempts were made to draw rough estimates of the current status of food-borne parasitic diseases in Japan by gathering the annual incidence of each disease by literal survey and personal communications. In addition, parasitic diseases referred to and diagnosed in the Department of Parasitology, Miyazaki Medical College during 1999 were analyzed for the causative agents and the route of infection.
