Resistance towards metronidazole in Blastocystis sp.: A pathogenic consequence
Fig 1
Treatment of Blastocystis sp. with various concentration of metronidazole.
Growth profile of symptomatic and asymptomatic isolates from urban and orang asli showed increased proliferation of cells at 0.001 mg/ml of metronidazole. Values are expressed as mean ± SD of 5 isolates. Cells were counted in 1 ml. Control experiment was done using PBS to replace metronidazole. *P<0.05 in Students t-test for comparison of means of peak cell count between different metronidazole concentrations.