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{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link)Healthcare professionals might consider re-testing stool at least 1 week after the last dose of nitazoxanide only if symptoms do not resolve. In such cases, longer courses of treatment might be needed. Persistent symptoms may also represent re-infection
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After an incubation period of 5–10 days (range 2–28 days), an infected individual develops watery diarrhea ... fever may be low grade or nonexistent; ... Diarrhea, with or without crampy abdominal pain, may be intermittent and scant or continuous, watery, and copious; sometimes, the diarrhea is mucoid. ... Biliary tract involvement is seen in persons with AIDS who have very low CD4 cell counts and is common in children with X-linked immunodeficiency with hyper–immunoglobulin M (IgM). ... Other signs related to GI illness include right upper-quadrant or epigastric tenderness, icterus, and, rarely, ascites related to pancreatic involvement. Reactive arthritis that affects the hands, knees, ankles, and feet has been described.
All 58 patients reported resolution of diarrhoea after 7 days of treatment with nitazoxanide. However, 40 (70.1%) patients reported recurrence of diarrhoea within 6 weeks of treatment. ... Our study demonstrates a high prevalence of cryptosporidiosis in immunocompetent adult patients. Nitazoxanide is the recommended antimicrobial drug for cryptosporidiosis. ... The frequency of cryptosporidiosis has not been well-defined. About 30% of the adult population of the United States are seropositive with over 10,500 cases reported in 2008. ... Although we gave 7 days of therapy and a satisfactory treatment response was obtained in the short term, there was a high recurrence rate.21 Paromomycin and/or azithromycin in combination with nitazoxanide have been tested in double blind randomized trials for the treatment of cryptosporidiosis in immunocomprised patients such as those with HIV/AIDS, and the results have been encouraging.18,22,23
{{استشهاد ويب}}: صيانة الاستشهاد: BOT: original URL status unknown (link)After an incubation period of 5–10 days (range 2–28 days), an infected individual develops watery diarrhea ... fever may be low grade or nonexistent; ... Diarrhea, with or without crampy abdominal pain, may be intermittent and scant or continuous, watery, and copious; sometimes, the diarrhea is mucoid. ... Biliary tract involvement is seen in persons with AIDS who have very low CD4 cell counts and is common in children with X-linked immunodeficiency with hyper–immunoglobulin M (IgM). ... Other signs related to GI illness include right upper-quadrant or epigastric tenderness, icterus, and, rarely, ascites related to pancreatic involvement. Reactive arthritis that affects the hands, knees, ankles, and feet has been described.
Healthcare professionals might consider re-testing stool at least 1 week after the last dose of nitazoxanide only if symptoms do not resolve. In such cases, longer courses of treatment might be needed. Persistent symptoms may also represent re-infection
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