TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chemotherapy of Protozoal Infections: Amebiasis, Giardiasis, Trichomoniasis, Trypanosomiasis, Leishmaniasis, and Other Protozoal Infections
A1  - Wetzel, Dawn M.
A1  - Phillips, Margaret A.
A2  - Brunton, Laurence L.
A2  - Hilal-Dandan, Randa
A2  - Knollmann, Björn C.
PY  - 2017
T2  - Goodman & Gilman's: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 13e
AB  - Humans  host  a  wide  variety  of  protozoal  parasites  that  can  be  transmitted  by  insect  vectors,  directly  from  other  mammalian  reservoirs,  or  from  one  person  to  another.  The  immune  system  plays  a  crucial  role  in  protecting  against  the  pathological  consequences  of  many  protozoal  infections.  Thus,  opportunistic  infections  with  protozoa  are  prominent  in  infants,  individuals  with  cancer,  transplant  recipients,  those  receiving  immunosuppressive  drugs  or  extensive  antibiotic  therapy,  and  persons  with  advanced  HIV  infection.  Because  effective  vaccines  are  unavailable,  chemotherapy  has  been  the  only  practical  way  to  both  treat  infected  individuals  and  reduce  transmission.  Satisfactory  agents  for  treating  important  protozoal  infections  such  as  African  trypanosomiasis  (sleeping  sickness)  and  chronic  Chagas  disease  still  are  lacking.  Many  effective  antiprotozoal  drugs  are  toxic  at  therapeutic  doses;  this  problem  is  exacerbated  by  increasing  drug  resistance.  For  a  list  of  drugs  and  doses  used  to  treat  these  diseases  see  Drugs  for  Parasitic  Infections  (2013).  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/16
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1162544051
ER  -