Abstract:The efficacy of prolonged administration of azithromycin and pyrimethamine was evaluated in mice experimentally infected with cystogenic strain of Toxoplasma gondii. The animals were intraperitoneally inoculated with one cyst of T. gondii and after 20 days were allocated into four groups: GI, infected without treatment; GII, infected and treated with the association of pyrimethamine (12.5 mg/kg/day) and azithromycin (100 mg/kg/day); GIII, infected and treated with the same dose of pyrimethamine; and GIV, infec… Show more
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