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  2. Metronidazole - Wikipedia

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    Metronidazole, sold under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication. [11] It is used either alone or with other antibiotics to treat pelvic inflammatory disease , endocarditis , and bacterial vaginosis . [ 11 ]

  3. Loading dose - Wikipedia

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    That immediately gets the drug's concentration in the body up to the therapeutically-useful level. First day: 1000 mg; the body clears 100 mg, leaving 900 mg. On the second day, the patient takes 100 mg, bringing the level back to 1000 mg; the body clears 100 mg overnight, still leaving 900 mg, and so forth.

  4. Hymenolepiasis - Wikipedia

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    Praziquantel as a single dose (25 mg/kg) is the current treatment of choice for hymenolepiasis and has an efficacy of 96%. Single-dose albendazole (400 mg) is also very efficacious (>95%). [citation needed] A three-day course of nitazoxanide is 75–93% efficacious. The dose is 1 g daily for adults and children over 12; 400 mg daily for ...

  5. List of antibiotics - Wikipedia

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    This antibiotic is not recommended for children and 75 and up of age: Inactivates enolpyruvyl transferase, thereby blocking cell wall synthesis Fusidic acid: Fucidin: Metronidazole: Flagyl: Infections caused by anaerobic bacteria; also amoebiasis, trichomoniasis, giardiasis: Discolored urine, headache, metallic taste, nausea; alcohol is ...

  6. Amebicide - Wikipedia

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    metronidazole 500–750 mg three times a day for 5–10 days; tinidazole 2g once a day for 3 days is an alternative to metronidazole; Doses for children are calculated by body weight and a pharmacist should be consulted for help.

  7. Ornidazole - Wikipedia

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    Ornidazole is an antibiotic used to treat protozoan infections. [1]: 1368 A synthetic nitroimidazole, it is commercially obtained from an acid-catalyzed reaction between 2-methyl-5-nitroimidazole and epichlorohydrin.

  8. Helicobacter pylori eradication protocols - Wikipedia

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    In areas of low clarithromycin resistance, including the United States, a 14-day course of "triple therapy" with an oral proton pump inhibitor, clarithromycin 500 mg, and amoxicillin 1 g (or, if penicillin allergic, metronidazole 500 mg), all given twice daily for 14 days, is recommended for first-line therapy. This regimen can achieve rates of ...

  9. Secnidazole - Wikipedia

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    Structurally it actually methyl-metronidazole. Effectiveness in the treatment of dientamoebiasis has been reported. [3] It has also been tested against Atopobium vaginae. [4] In the United States, secnidazole is FDA-approved for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis and trichomoniasis in adult women. [2] [5] It was approved in the United States ...