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    Metronidazole, sold under the brand name Flagyl among others, is an antibiotic and antiprotozoal medication. It is used either alone or with other antibiotics...
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  • The drug combination bismuth subcitrate/metronidazole/tetracycline (trade name Pylera) is used for the treatment of peptic ulcer with an infection by...
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    present, treatment is typically provided with either tinidazole or metronidazole. Infection may cause a person to become lactose intolerant, so it is...
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    curable, treatment usually improves symptoms. Treatment is typically with metronidazole, doxycycline, minocycline, or tetracycline. When the eyes are affected...
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    Hydroxymetronidazole is the main metabolite of metronidazole. Both have antibiotic and antiprotozoal activity. Haberfeld H, ed. (2020). Austria-Codex...
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    include clindamycin, a combination of a beta-lactam antibiotic and metronidazole, or an aminoglycoside. Corticosteroids are sometimes used in aspiration...
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    but chloro-secnidazole. Antimicrobial spectrum is similar to that of metronidazole and is more well tolerated;: 1368  however there are concerns of lower...
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    associated with a decrease in white blood cell count. The FDA monograph for metronidazole states that this medication can also cause leukopenia, and the prescriber...
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  • surgical center, or office. Preventive antibiotics (such as doxycycline or metronidazole) are typically given before abortion procedures, as they are believed...
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    a bacterium, trichomoniasis can be cured with certain antibiotics (metronidazole, tinidazole, secnidazole). Sexual partners should also be treated. About...
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    tautomers readily interconvert. Drugs of the 5-nitro variety include metronidazole, tinidazole, nimorazole, dimetridazole, pretomanid, ornidazole, megazol...
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    of asymptomatic cases as high as 50%. Usually treatment consists of metronidazole and tinidazole. Alfred Francois Donné (1801–1878) was the first to describe...
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  • Cefazolin Chloramphenicol Clindamycin Cloxacillin Doxycycline Gentamicin Metronidazole Nitrofurantoin Phenoxymethylpenicillin (penicillin V) Procaine benzylpenicillin...
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    disulfiram effect. Metronidazole is an antibacterial agent that kills bacteria by damaging cellular DNA and hence cellular function. Metronidazole is usually...
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    options for treatments. Usually nitroimidazole derivatives (such as metronidazole) are used, because they are highly effective against the trophozoite...
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    blood–brain barrier. Some drugs such as isoniazid, pyrazinamide, linezolid, metronidazole, fluconazole, and some fluoroquinolones have good penetration to blood...
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  • gastric region. Antibiotics include amoxicillin, clarithromycin and metronidazole. Bismuth subsalicylate is an antimicrobial agent of another drug class...
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    for mixed infectious vaginitis is a combination of clotrimazole and metronidazole. Topical clotrimazole is usually not effective in the treatment of fungal...
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  • 71-00-1 ethyl 5-amino-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylate 6994-25-8 C6H9N3O3 metronidazole 443-48-1 C6H10O2 (2R)-2-Methylpent-4-enoic acid C6H10O3 4-acetylbutyric...
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    can be unpredictable, as was evident in experimental studies where metronidazole and pefloxacin therapies were detrimental. Antimicrobials that reduce...
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    managed by discontinuing the causative agent and treating it with either metronidazole or vancomycin. Bacteria and protozoans that are amenable to treatment...
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    applied to the skin or taken orally, include clindamycin, erythromycin, metronidazole, sulfacetamide, and tetracyclines (e.g., doxycycline or minocycline)...
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  • having surgery. Antibiotics given intravenously such as cefuroxime and metronidazole may be administered early to help kill bacteria and thus reduce the...
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  • resistance. In the United States, up to 50% of strains are resistant to metronidazole and 13% are resistant to clarithromycin. At present, experts disagree...
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    oxygen, hypoxic cell radiosensitizer drugs such as misonidazole and metronidazole, and hypoxic cytotoxins (tissue poisons), such as tirapazamine. Newer...
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    vaginosis is commonly treated with topical or oral antibiotics such as metronidazole or clindamycin, which work by targeting G. vaginalis and possibly other...
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    consisting of a proton-pump inhibitor, amoxicillin, clarithromycin, and metronidazole. Prior to treatment, testing is recommended to identify any pre-existing...
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    the process acquired Searle and SUGEN. Searle had developed Flagyl (metronidazole), a nitroimidazole antibiotic medication used particularly for anaerobic...
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    medication (e.g., chemotherapy, or commonly prescribed antibiotics including metronidazole and the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics (such as ciprofloxacin...
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  • vaginosis, and yeast infections: Trichomoniasis: Oral treatment with either metronidazole or tinidazole. "Sexual partner(s) should be treated simultaneously....
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