Journal of toxicology. Clinical toxicology, 31(1), 113-120 (1993-01-01)
This case report describes seizures and encephalopathy in a nine year-old boy treated with iodoquinol for amebiasis. The toxicity of iodoquinol and other 8-hydroxyquinolines is discussed. The radiopacity of this medication, used worldwide for the treatment of diarrheal illnesses and
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 38(5), 1157-1160 (1994-05-01)
Susceptibility testing was performed on Dientamoeba fragilis ATCC 30948 in a dixenic culture with Klebsiella pneumoniae and Bacteroides vulgatus. D. fragilis was cocultured with the bacteria in TYGM-9 medium (ATCC medium 1171). The activities of antiparasitic drugs were assessed by
We have previously shown that the common antiamebic drug diiodohydroxyquinoline (DIHQ) exhibits mutagenic activity in the in vivo micronucleus test in Swiss albino mice. Results of experiments undertaken to study the influence of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) on the mutagenicity
Relapse of intestinal and hepatic amebiasis after treatment.
Elizabeth W Hwang et al.
Digestive diseases and sciences, 56(3), 677-680 (2010-12-22)
The West Indian medical journal, 54(3), 210-212 (2005-10-08)
The colon responds monomorphically to a variety of insults thus making it difficult to differentiate invasive amoebic colitis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The authors present a case with chronic dysentery, haematochezia, anaemia and hypoproteinaemia. The endoscopic findings were suggestive
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