Telithromycin

Drugs

Volumn 64, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1683-1694

  Wellington, Keri ^a   Noble, Stuart ^a  

^a ADIS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ATORVASTATIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFUROXIME; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CISAPRIDE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUINDOSTATIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; KETOCONAZOLE; KETOLIDE; MACROLIDE; METICILLIN; MEVINOLIN; MIDAZOLAM; OXACILLIN; PIMOZIDE; PRAVASTATIN; PRISTINAMYCIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; SIMVASTATIN; TELITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; THEOPHYLLINE; TROVAFLOXACIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; DIARRHEA; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DIZZINESS; DYSGEUSIA; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; NAUSEA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; BRONCHITIS, CHRONIC; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KETOLIDES; MACROLIDES; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; PNEUMONIA; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRONCHUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 4344659147     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200464150-00006     Document Type: Review

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