Refractory giardiasis in Spanish travellers

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2013 Mar-Apr;11(2):126-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.10.004. Epub 2012 Dec 3.

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Algorithms
  • Antiprotozoal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Feces / parasitology
  • Female
  • Giardia lamblia / isolation & purification*
  • Giardiasis / drug therapy
  • Giardiasis / epidemiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nitroimidazoles / therapeutic use
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Spain / epidemiology
  • Travel*
  • Treatment Failure

Substances

  • Antiprotozoal Agents
  • Nitroimidazoles