A trial of high-dose, short-course levofloxacin for the treatment of acute bacterial sinusitis

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 10-17

  Poole, Michael ^a   Anon, Jack ^b   Paglia, Margaret ^c   Xiang, Jim ^c   Khashab, Mohammed ^c   Kahn, James ^c  

^a Georgia Ear Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE SINUSITIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; ERADICATION THERAPY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAUSEA; PROCEDURAL SITE REACTION; PUNCTURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OFLOXACIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 29944439506     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2005.11.026     Document Type: Article

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