BACKGROUND Resolution of Helicobacter pylori infection is important in the management of peptic ulcer disease and reduces peptic ulcer recurrence in both adults and children. Various anti-H pylori treatment regimens have been proposed, reflecting the incomplete clinical success of each. A combination of omeprazole, clarithromycin, and tinidazole, given for 1 week, has been shown to be highly to...

Distinguishing between re-infection and relapse of trichomonas infections is often a difficult task in the clinical setting. The chronicity of trichomonas infections and the ongoing sexual activity are two confounding factors. We present a patient with recurrent resistant vaginal trichomoniasis shortly following a sexual contact with an untreated partner after a complete response to treatment w...

Background: Concomitant oral administration of NFX with TNZ may affect NFX absorption and consequently its blood concentration and pharmacological effect. Objective: The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of TNZ on the pharmacokinetics of NFX in healthy volunteers. Methods: This study was conducted as an open-label, randomized, two-way crossover experimental design. After an...

Background: Concomitant oral administration of NFX with TNZ may affect NFX absorption and consequently its blood concentration and pharmacological effect. Objective: The present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of TNZ on the pharmacokinetics of NFX in healthy volunteers. Methods: This study was conducted as an open-label, randomized, two-way crossover experimental design. After an...

Trichomonas vaginalis (Tv) is a causative agent of worldwide spread sexually transmitted disease, particularly affecting underdeveloped all segments of the population. Metronidazole is by far the most prescribed drug for the treatment of trichomoniasis. However, the appearance of drug resistant has led to the appearance of new drug alternatives. That is why the development of reliable and stand...

Bacterial vaginosis has been appreciated as a unique clinical entity for well over 50 years. Its essential manifestations are well established: a loss of the normal bacterial population of the vagina and their replacement by other species. Investigations into this condition have led to a better understanding of its prevalence and epidemiology. Microbiologic and biochemical studies have exposed ...

One hundred recent clinical isolates of Campylobacter fetus subsp. jejuni were tested by an agar dilution technique for susceptibility to each of 20 antimicrobial agents. Doxycycline and gentamicin were the most active of the drugs examined, inhibiting all strains at concentrations achievable in serum. Although the median minimal inhibitory concentration of erythromycin was low, 8% of the isola...

Clostridium pseudotetanicum was isolated along with Serratia marcescens, Proteus mirabilis, and Staphylococcus epidermidis from a patient suffering from gas gangrene who had been injured in the right leg by a power cultivator. Experimental infection of the hind leg of mice with C. pseudotetanicum and the three kinds of aerobic bacteria did not produce any different macroscopic finding in the in...