Methods | Alternate allocation. | |
Participants | 218 consecutive women attending a venereal disease clinic in Bournemouth, England. Abstinence from sexual intercourse was advised. |
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Interventions | Metronidazole 200 mg 3 times daily by mouth for 7 days versus nimorazole 250 mg 12 hourly for 6 days. Contact slips were issued for male partners of all women requesting them to attend the clinic within 24 hours and they were given the same treatment if they attended. |
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Outcomes | Parasitological and clinical cure. Side effects. | |
Notes | Diagnosis by wetmount and culture. Follow up on days 7, 14, 28, and 42. Loss to follow up 21/218 (9.6%) in total with 9/109 in metronidazole and 12/109 in nimorazole groups. |