nystatin-a1 and Enteritis

Fungal infections of the gastrointestinal tract have risen to higher levels of prevalence in the past decade. Major factors accounting for this increase are social changes, such as the increased ease and frequency of travel, which exposes the individual to environmental conditions that may result in fungal infection; increasing use of antibiotic and hormonal medications by otherwise healthy persons; and improved therapy for other diseases, such as polychemotherapy of cancer with its immunosuppressive effects. Both noninvasive and invasive fungal disease of the intestinal tract in otherwise healthy individuals can be successfully treated. The invasive fungal infections in patients with severe prior underlying disease are often first diagnosed postmortem, but improvement in serologic techniques now offers a possibility of earlier diagnosis and therapeutic intervention.

Topics: Amphotericin B; Antifungal Agents; Candidiasis; Diarrhea; Enteritis; Histoplasmosis; Humans; Imidazoles; Immunosuppression Therapy; Ketoconazole; Miconazole; Mycoses; Neoplasms; Nystatin; Paracoccidioidomycosis; Piperazines; Sulfadiazine

To evaluate the therapeutic effect and mechanism of Jiechang Mixture (JCM) in treating infantile mycotic enteritis.. The children patients confirmed to be suffered from mycotic enteritis were divided randomly into two groups: the 40 cases in the treated group treated with JCM and the 20 cases in the control group treated with fungicidin. The time of stool forming, diarrhea relieving and fungi vanishing were observed. The promoting effect of JCM on small intestine motility and the inhibition of JCM on Candida albicans in stool culture were studied experimentally.. The time of stool forming, diarrhea relieving and fungi vanishing in the treated group were significantly shorter than those in the control group (P < 0.01), and JCM also showed a better effect in improving clinical symptoms and signs of patients than the control. Results of experimental study showed that JCM could abate the ink evacuation of small intestine in mice. The fungi inhibitory test suggested that Candida albicans was susceptible to JCM.. JCM is an effective herbal medicine in treating infantile mycotic enteritis.

Topics: Administration, Rectal; Animals; Antifungal Agents; Candidiasis; Drugs, Chinese Herbal; Enteritis; Female; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Mice; Nystatin; Phytotherapy; Prospective Studies

A total of 258 patients with candidal vulvovaginitis, all of whom also exhibited Candida organisms in the rectum, were treated for 1 week with vaginal tablets only (nystatin or clotrimazole) or with both vaginal and oral tablets (nystatin). Mycologic and symptomatic responses were superior for the group receiving combined intravaginal-oral therapy; the vaginas of 88% of those treated by both routes were cleared of Candida, as compared with 75% of those receiving only intravaginal medication (p less than 0.05). Nystatin and clotrimazole were equally effective. When the 258 patients, regardless of treatment regimen, were grouped into those whose intestinal tracts after therapy contained Candida or those free of Candida, the response rates of the vaginal infection at all follow-up examinations favored the latter group (p less than 0.05 to less than 0.001). Vaginal infection recurred in 19.7% of patients treated only intravaginally and 14.7% of those receiving combined therapy. These results suggest the value of eliminating any intestinal reservoir of Candida when treating patients with candidal vulvovaginitis.

Topics: Administration, Oral; Adult; Candidiasis, Vulvovaginal; Clinical Trials as Topic; Clotrimazole; Enteritis; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Imidazoles; Nystatin; Random Allocation; Rectum; Vagina

This is a case report of enteric protothecosis caused by Prototheca zopfii in an eight-year-old male mixed breed dog with a history of chronic bloody diarrhea, loss of appetite and weight loss. Algae were isolated from rectal scrapings in defibrinated sheep blood agar and dextrose Sabouraud agar. Cytological evaluation showed the presence of globular and cylindrical organisms with a defined capsule and variable number of endospores, characteristic of the genus Prototheca, in the rectum of the animal. Scanning electron microscopy of P. zopfii strains at different development stages confirmed the diagnosis of algal infection. Molecular identification using a conserved 18S rDNA gene sequence determined that the strain belonged to genotype 2. This report describes success on treatment of canine protothecosis, diagnosed based on clinical, cytological, microbiological, scanning electron microscopy and genotypical findings.

Topics: Animals; Anti-Infective Agents; Dog Diseases; Dogs; Enteritis; Infections; Male; Nystatin; Prototheca

Topics: Administration, Oral; Candidiasis; Enteritis; Humans; Nystatin; Opportunistic Infections

Candidiasis in cats has always been linked with such predisposing factors as parvovirus infections and antibiotic and chemotherapeutic treatments. Moreover these cases were all diagnosed post-mortem. The clinical observations and the diagnostic procedures used in an antemortem case of probable idiopathic intestinal candidiasis in a cat are reported. The therapeutic measures used and the method of evaluating the efficacy of antimycotic treatment are also described.

Topics: Animals; Candida albicans; Candidiasis; Cat Diseases; Cats; Enteritis; Feces; Female; Intestines; Nystatin

Topics: Candida albicans; Candidiasis, Cutaneous; Candidiasis, Oral; Enteritis; Feces; Humans; Infant; Nystatin

Topics: Child; Enteritis; Geotrichosis; Humans; Infant; Intestines; Mycoses; Nystatin