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ArticleJournal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology2025

Efficacy of nitazoxanide, ivermectin and albendazole in treatment of cryptosporidiosis in immunosuppressed mice.

Basma M Elmansory, Rabab Sayed Zalat, Eman Khaled, Noha Madbouly Taha

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Article in Journal of parasitic diseases : official organ of the Indian Society for Parasitology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Basma M ElmansoryDepartment of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-7076-6827
Rabab Sayed ZalatDepartment of Parasitology, Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Giza, Egypt.
Eman KhaledDepartment of Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
Noha Madbouly TahaDepartment of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryptosporidiosis is one of the main causes of fatal watery diarrhea, especially in immunocompromised patients worldwide. Although nitazoxanide (NTZ) is the only effective FDA approved drug for cryptosporidiosis, it is partially effective in immunocompromised patients. So, there is an urgent need for new alternatives for treating cryptosporidiosis in those patients. The present study aims to assess the efficacy of ivermectin (IVM) and albendazole (ALB) as compared to NTZ and their combinations in treatment of cryptosporidiosis in immunosuppressed infected mice. Mice were divided into 7 groups (G) with 10 mice each; GI: treated with NTZ. GII: treated with IVM. GIII: treated with ALB. GIV: treated with combined NTZ and IVM. GV: treated with combined NTZ and ALB. GVI: non-infected non-treated (negative control). GVII: infected non-treated (positive control). Parasitological, histopathological, and immunological studies were done for all studied groups. The combined therapy of NTZ and IVM showed the best results in reducing the oocysts shedding (reduction rate of 91.9%), healing the histopathological inflammatory changes of ileum, in addition to enhancing the cellular immune response by marked elevation of serum INF-γ levels as compared to the other treatment regimens. Therefore, we concluded that this synergistic combination is promising in controlling cryptosporidiosis in immunocompromised patients.

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AlbendazoleCryptosporidiosisCryptosporidiumIvermectinNitazoxanide

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PMID40458498
PMCPMC12126428

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