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Treatment of Giardiasis with Tinidazole^*

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.

Accepted for publication August 27, 1977.

^* Supported by Naval Medical Research and Development Command, NNMC, Bethesda, Maryland Work Unit M0095.PN.002-5022.

The opinions and assertions contained herein are the private ones of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the Department of the Navy.

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