Abstracto

Clinical Pharmacy-2013 : Five-nitroimidazole drugs: Over 50 years in use in human giardiasis, are still efficacious? - Angel A. Escobedo - Academic Paediatric Hospital Pedro Borras

Angel A. Escobedo

For more than 50 years, 5-nitroimidazole (5-NI) drugs, especially metronidazole, have been in use in the treatment of children and adults with giardiasis. This disease, caused by the flagellated protozoan Giardia lamblia, is recognised as a major cause of parasite-induced diarrhoea, and is currently an important public health problem, placing a heavy burden on both diagnostic and treatment services at health care institutions, mostly in developing countries, but also in highly industrialized countries. Although giardiasis has been a threat to mankind for thousands of years, until recently, it was relatively neglected. As a consequence, the pharmaceutical industry has had few incentives to engage in the development of new drugs and, at present, nitazoxanide is the first new drug developed for treating giardiasis in more than 20 years. Currently, the increasing number of reports of refractory cases with 5-NI drugs and other antigiardial agents has raised concern and led to a search for other compounds, some of which have arisen due to the introduction of drugs initially addressed to other diseases. Information is required to know if 5-NI are still efficacious in the present context, in which resistance to common antimicrobials is a threat. Additionally, it is discussed some of the most important points of antigiardial pharmacotherapy available at present and the future prospects of development of new agents. The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications to be administered (or self-administered) to patients, with the aim to cure them, vaccinate them, or alleviate the symptoms.[1][2] Pharmaceutical companies may deal in generic or brand medications and medical devices. They are subject to a variety of laws and regulations that govern the patenting, testing, safety, efficacy and marketing of drugs. A progression of examinations performed from the late 1800s to the mid 1900s uncovered that diabetes is brought about by the nonappearance of a substance typically created by the pancreas. In 1869, Oskar Minkowski and Joseph von Mering found that diabetes could be instigated in hounds by careful evacuation of the pancreas. In 1921, Canadian educator Frederick Banting and his understudy Charles Best rehashed this investigation and found that infusions of pancreatic concentrate switched the side effects created by pancreas expulsion. Before long, the concentrate was exhibited to work in individuals, yet improvement of insulin treatment as a normal clinical method was postponed by troubles in delivering the material in adequate amount and with reproducible virtue. 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