Amebic Dysentery (Amoebic Dysentery)

438  relevant articles (18 outcomes, 38 trials/studies) found for this Disease

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1.	Giardiasis
2.	Amebic Liver Abscess
3.	Infection
4.	Dysentery
5.	Amebiasis (Amoebiasis)
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Experts

1.	Ji, Dar-Der: 1 article (09/2008)
2.	Wu, Cheng-Hsin: 1 article (09/2008)
3.	Wu, Pei-Ying: 1 article (09/2008)
4.	Chang, Shan-Chwen: 1 article (09/2008)
5.	Chang, Sui-Yuan: 1 article (09/2008)
6.	Lo, Yi-Chun: 1 article (09/2008)
7.	Hung, Chien-Ching: 1 article (09/2008)
8.	Liu, Wen-Chun: 1 article (09/2008)
9.	Sun, Hsin-Yun: 1 article (09/2008)
10.	Wright, Stephen G: 1 article (01/2007)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Amebic Dysentery:

1.	Metronidazole (Metric)FDA LinkGeneric 10/01/1996 - "This indicates that symptomatic amebic colitis in HIV-infected persons can be successfully treated with metronidazole at the same dose and duration of treatment used in non-HIV-infected persons." 07/01/1975 - "Metronidazole has the advantage of effectiveness against intestinal amoebiasis and the probability of cure with a shorter course of treatment" 01/05/1970 - "Trials with metronidazole in amebic dysentery." 05/01/2005 - "He had a 50-day-history of amebic dysentery and had been treated with 1,500 mg metronidazole per day" 09/01/2000 - "histolytica II kit is a sensitive means to diagnose hepatic and intestinal amebiasis prior to the institution of metronidazole treatment." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
2.	TinidazoleFDA Link 01/01/1978 - "Intestinal amoebiasis: of 502 patients, comprising 458 adults and 44 children, with symptomatic intestinal amoebiasis who received tinidazole as a single daily dose on 2 to 3 consecutive days, 477 (95%) were parasitologically cured with complete or marked improvement in symptoms" 07/12/1981 - "Tinidazole therapy of intestinal amebiasis]" 01/01/1978 - "Tinidazole was given in a single dose of 2g a day for 2 days to 17 adults, and in a single dose of 50mg/kg bodyweight daily for 3 days to 4 children, with symptomatic, but not severe, intestinal amoebiasis" 01/01/1978 - "Treatment of symptomatic intestinal amoebiasis with tinidazole." 07/01/1977 - "Tinidazole can confidently be recommended as a very simple and safe form of therapy for amebic dysentery." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
3.	AntigensIBA 04/01/2002 - "of these molecules have been used as antigens in serologic studies, which has been very helpful in the diagnosis of invasive intestinal amebiasis" 11/01/1993 - "Fifteen stool samples from patients with intestinal amebiasis were available for study; all had a positive ELISA result for fecal GIAP antigen" 09/01/2008 - "The estimated cost to detect a case of intestinal amebiasis by serology followed by antigen assays ($52) could be reduced by 74.3% and 69.9%, respectively, compared with the costs of the concurrent use of both assays ($202) and the antigen assays alone ($173)" 09/01/2008 - "Among 345 persons who underwent indirect hemagglutination (IHA) serological assays and assays of specific amebic antigens in their stool samples, 24 of 36 (66.7%) who were seropositive for Entamoeba histolytica had intestinal amebiasis as determined by antigen assays compared with 2 of 309 (0.2%) who were seronegative (odds ratio, 307; 95% confidence interval, 64.9 to 1,451)" 08/01/2004 - "Diagnostic potentials of copro-antigen detection based ELISA, compared to microscopy in intestinal amoebiasis." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
4.	secnidazoleIBA 04/01/1994 - "Efficacy of secnidazole in the treatment of intestinal amoebiasis." 06/01/1995 - "Effect of single dose of secnidazole in treatment of intestinal amoebiasis." 09/01/1982 - "histolytica histolytica intestinal amoebiasis by a single dose of 35 mg/kg of secnidazole with 98 p" 01/01/1986 - "A double blind trial between metronidazole and secnidazole in acute amebic dysentery in children (preliminary report)." 10/01/1994 - "Ornidazole and secnidazole in the treatment of symptomatic intestinal amoebiasis in childhood." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
5.	Paromomycin (Paromomycin Sulfate)FDA LinkGeneric 07/01/1986 - "A prospective evaluation was made of the therapeutic efficacy of paromomycin, an orally administered, nonabsorbable aminoglycoside, in 114 homosexual men with mild-to-moderate (nondysenteric) intestinal amebiasis" 07/01/1960 - "Therapeutic trial of paromomycin sulfate in intestinal amebiasis.]" 10/01/1959 - "Paromomycin (Humatin) in the treatment of intestinal amebiasis: a preliminary dose-range study." 09/01/1992 - "Paromomycin in the treatment of mild-to-moderate intestinal amebiasis." 09/01/1977 - "Acute intestinal amebiasis treated with aminosidine]" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
6.	Tetracycline (Achromycin)FDA LinkGeneric 04/01/1955 - "Tetracycline in the treatment of intestinal amebiasis." 07/01/1954 - "Tetracycline (acromycin) in therapy of intestinal amebiasis.]" 07/01/1959 - "Studies on the value of the combination of tetracycline with diiodohydroxyquinoline in the prevention of intestinal amebiasis.]" 01/09/1960 - "Potentiating effect of quinolines on the action of tetracycline in amoebic dysentery." 09/01/1955 - "A comparative study of the use of combinations of fumagillin and tetracycline or erthromycin in the treatment of intestinal amebiasis; a preliminary report." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
7.	Clioquinol (Vioform)FDA Link 03/01/1953 - "Clinical-experimental study of the action of formocibazol associated with vioform in intestinal amebiasis.]" 12/01/1966 - "Treatment of intestinal amebiasis with a compound of iodochloroxyquinoline +5,6-quinono-4,7-phenantrothroline]" 08/01/1958 - "Treatment of intestinal amebiasis with phenanthroline quinone & iodochlorhydroxyquin.]" 01/01/1985 - "A study was carried out in 80 patients with acute intestinal amoebiasis to compare the efficacy of treatment with a single oral dose of 2 g secnidazole and a 5-day course of 750 mg tetracycline plus 1 g clioquinol per day" 01/01/1985 - "Comparison between the efficacy of a single dose of secnidazole with a 5-day course of tetracycline and clioquinol in the treatment of acute intestinal amoebiasis." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
8.	benzoquinone (quinone)IBA 01/01/1959 - "New treatment for amebic dysentery: 4,7-phenanthroline-5,6-quinone.]" 01/27/1962 - "Treatment of intestinal amebiasis with 4,7-phenanthroline-5,6-quinone.]" 03/01/1960 - "Treatment of chronic intestinal amebiasis with a phenanthroline-quinone derivative, 4,7-phenanthroline-5,6-quinone.]" 11/01/1957 - "The treatment of intestinal amebiasis and of acute or chronic intestinal infections with a quinone derivative: 4,7-phenanthroline-5,6-quinone; preliminary study on 15 cases.]" 08/01/1960 - "Treatment of intestinal amebiasis with diallyldiethylamino-bi-o-cresol; 5,7-dichloro-8-hydroxyquinaldine and 4,7-phenanthroline-5,6-quinone.]" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
9.	TabletsIBA 07/01/1970 - "Clinical studies of oral dehydro-emetine tablets (Ro 1-9334-10) in amebic dysentery in children." 05/01/1968 - "Dehydroemetine oral tablets in intestinal amebiasis." 10/01/2003 - "The guar gum-based colon-targeted tablets of tinidazole may be useful in providing an effective and safe therapy of intestinal amoebiasis." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
10.	Anti-Bacterial Agents (Antibiotics)IBA 03/28/1953 - "Comparative efficacy of amebacides and antibiotics in acute amebic dysentery; used alone and in combination in five hundred thirty-eight cases." 03/12/1955 - "The treatment of chronic amoebic dysentery with antibiotics in combination with other drugs." 03/19/1953 - "Association of antibiotics with other drugs in the treatment of intestinal amebiasis.]" 12/30/1952 - "Antibiotics in the treatment of acute amoebic dysentery." 08/16/1952 - "Antibiotics in amebic dysentery.]" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
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Therapies and Procedures

1.	Enema (Enemas) 01/01/1976 - "Six patients with severe intestinal amoebiasis treated with metronidazole retention enema are presented, and they illustrate the efficacy of the new method of therapy" 01/01/1989 - "We report here our findings on the double-contrast barium enema given to 8 patients with amebic colitis and a comparison is made with endoscopic features" 01/01/1989 - "The value of double-contrast barium enema in amebic colitis." 01/01/1976 - "Metronidazole retention enema in the management of severe intestinal amoebiasis." 11/29/1975 - "Letter: Treatment of intestinal amebiasis by metronidazole enemas]" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
2.	Colectomy 01/01/2003 - "staged surgery including total colectomy should be considered as one of the treatment choices even in patients with total necrotizing amoebic colitis." 03/01/1985 - "Acute fulminating amoebic colitis: survival after total colectomy." 03/01/1980 - "Toxic dilatation in amebic colitis: successful treatment without colectomy." 01/01/1978 - "Severe acute toxic amoebic colitis requiring total colectomy: case report." 06/01/1975 - "Nevertheless, certain clinical presentations of intestinal amebiasis require surgical procedures varying from drainage of an abscess to a subtotal colectomy" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
3.	Heterologous Transplantation (Xenotransplantation) 09/01/2006 - "We found that compared with HM-1:IMSS, Rahman has a defect in erythrophagocytosis and the ability to cause amoebic colitis in human colonic xenografts" 12/01/2003 - "Diseases studied with human xenografts in severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mice include Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis, group A streptococci and impetigo, bacillary and amoebic dysentery, and AIDS" 08/01/2000 - "To test the role of amoebic cysteine proteinases in the pathogenesis of amoebic colitis, human intestinal xenografts in SCID mice were infected with E" 09/01/2003 - "Tumor necrosis factor alpha is a key mediator of gut inflammation seen in amebic colitis in human intestine in the SCID mouse-human intestinal xenograft model of disease." 09/01/2003 - "We used Entamoeba histolytica infection in human intestinal xenografts to study the roles interleukin-1 (IL-1) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) in the pathogenesis of amebic colitis" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
4.	Laparotomy 10/21/2000 - "Laparotomy revealed colonic perforation due to amebic colitis." 02/01/1990 - "A prospective analysis is presented of a selected group of 45 consecutive patients with transmural amoebic colitis treated by laparotomy, colonic lavage and ileostomy (phase 1 surgery) over 3 years" 07/01/1988 - "An intra-operative evaluation of the peritoneal barriers in response to necrosis was undertaken during laparotomy in 82 patients with clinical transmural amoebic colitis" 02/01/1990 - "The diagnosis of amoebic colitis and amoebic perforation of the bowel were difficult and therefore all patients with 'acute abdomen' had proctosigmoidoscopy and a trial of metronidazole for 24-48 h before laparotomy" Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
5.	Drug Therapy (Chemotherapy) 10/01/1996 - "We investigated whether symptomatic E histolytica amebic colitis in HIV-infected persons requires higher doses or longer duration of antiamebic drug therapy than in non HIV-infected patients" 02/01/1989 - "Amoebic dysentery: a relapsing case by cancer chemotherapy]" 06/01/1975 - "If, in patients with acute fulminating amebic colitis, the signs or symptoms of intraperitoneal or impending perforation develop, unremitting diarrhea associated with anemia and hypoproteinemia continues, or localized abscsses fail to improve with chemotherapy, operative intervention is indicated" 07/01/1986 - "Thus, paromomycin is an effective alternative to conventional multi-drug therapy for intestinal amebiasis, and it has the advantages of low toxicity, brief duration of therapy, and a high rate of patient compliance." 03/01/1971 - "Chemotherapy of acute intestinal and extra-intestinal amoebiasis with nitro-imidazole." Get all the results and reference details, order at left...
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