Efficacy and safety of ciprofloxacin oral suspension versus trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole oral suspension for treatment of older women with acute urinary tract infection

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1606-1613

  Gomolin, Irving H ^a,b   Siami, Paul F ^c   Reuning Scherer, Jonathan ^d   Haverstock, Daniel C ^d   Heyd, Allen ^d  

^a Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Welborn Clinic   (United States)

^d BAYER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute urinary tract infection; Ciprofloxacin oral suspension; Cystitis; Older female; TMP SMX suspension

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SUSPENSION; TASTE DISORDER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINITIS; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; CIPROFLOXACIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUSPENSIONS; TIME FACTORS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 18244363130     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.t01-1-49268.x     Document Type: Article

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