CHEMOTHERAPY OF ENTAMOEBA-HISTOLYTICA - STUDIES IN-VITRO WITH BACITRACIN AND ITS ZINC SALT

Authors
ANDREWS BJ BJORVATN B
Citation
Bj. Andrews et B. Bjorvatn, CHEMOTHERAPY OF ENTAMOEBA-HISTOLYTICA - STUDIES IN-VITRO WITH BACITRACIN AND ITS ZINC SALT, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 88(1), 1994, pp. 98-100
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath","Tropical Medicine
Journal title
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene → ACNP
ISSN journal
00359203
Volume
88
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
98 - 100
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-9203(1994)88:1<98:COE-SI>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Twenty-one Entamoeba histolytica isolates from a range of geographical locations and representing 3 different zymodemes were tested under xe nic anaerobic conditions for their sensitivities to bacitracin and bac itracin zinc. Isolates were over 13 times more sensitive to bacitracin zinc than to bacitracin. Our results indicate that bacitracin zinc ma y form the basis of an alternative non-toxic treatment of luminal amoe biasis.