Treatment of typhoid fever with azithromycin versus chloramphenicol in a randomized multicentre trial in India

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 243-250

  Butler, Thomas ^a   Sridhar, C B ^b   Daga, M K ^c   Pathak, Kamal ^d   Pandit, R B ^e   Khakhria, Rasik ^f   Potkar, Chandrashekhar N ^g   Zelasky, Michael T ^g   Johnson, Raymond B ^g  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b John's Medical College   (India)

^c MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d Baroda Hospital   (United States)

^e Railway Hospital   (India)

^f Bureau of Microbiology   (Canada)

^g PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SIDE EFFECT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0032812359     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/44.2.243     Document Type: Article

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