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  • Title: Treatment of giardiasis with tinidazole.
    Author: Masry NA, Farid Z, Miner WF.
    Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg; 1978 Jan; 27(1 Pt 1):201-2. PubMed ID: 626273.
    Abstract:
    Fifty-five patients, 51 males and 4 females heavily infected with Giardia lamblia were treated with a single 2 g dose of tinidazole (four tablets); 53 were cured. Of 20 other infected patients kept under the same conditions and given four placebo tablets, 18 continued to pass cysts or trophozoites in the stools during the whole 3- to 4-wk follow-up period in hospital. There were no side effects attributed to the drug.
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