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Refractory giardiasis in Spanish travellers.

Jose Muñoz Gutiérrez1, Edelweiss Aldasoro, Ana Requena, Ana M Comin, Maria Jesús Pinazo, Azucena Bardají, Inés Oliveira, Maria Eugenia Valls, Joaquim Gascon.   

Abstract

Drug failure is a common cause of symptom persistence after treatment of imported Giardia duodenalis. In this retrospective study we describe a high prevalence of refractory giardiasis in people attended in a travel clinic in Spain, especially those with infections acquired in Asia. Moreover, we discuss various treatment strategies to tackle G. duodenalis that is refractory to nitroimidazoles.
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Year:  2012        PMID: 23218784     DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.10.004

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Travel Med Infect Dis        ISSN: 1477-8939            Impact factor:   6.211


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