We describe a patient with a liver abscess due to Entamoeba histolytica, in whom metronidazole therapy (total dose, 21 g over 14 days) was complicated by reversible deafness, tinnitus, and ataxia and who relapsed 5 months later with a splenic abscess.
reversible deafness
metronidazole
tinnitus
metronidazole
ataxia
metronidazole
liver abscess
metronidazole
splenic abscess
metronidazole