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Shvoong Home>Medicine & Health>CLINICAL STUDY ON THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF THE LEVOFLOXACIN USED TO TREAT THE PATIENTS WITH TYPHOI Review

CLINICAL STUDY ON THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF THE LEVOFLOXACIN USED TO TREAT THE PATIENTS WITH TYPHOI

Article Review   by:TsingHua     Original Author: THE CHINESE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
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This article reported the results of the 61 patients with typhoid and paratyphoid fever treated with levofloxacin. Out of which, 40 cases were compared with cefixime (CFM) in randomized-control method. The clinical cure rate, effectiveness rate and the bacterial elimination rate were 97.5%, 100% and 100% respectively in the levofloxacin randomized group. In the cefixime group, the clinical cure rate, effectiveness rate and the bacterial elimination rate were all the same(90%). There were no significant difference in the two groups (P>0.05). The average days of the fever disappeared in the levofloxacin randomized group was 3.45±1.14 days. It was shorter than that (4.95±1.71 days) in the cefixime group (P<0.05). 61 patients were treated with levofloxacin at all. The clinical effective rate was 100% and all the initial pathogens were eradicated. The total adverse reactions rate was 3.27%. No cases of recurrence, relapse and bacterial carrier were observed during 3 months after treatment. In vitro. Levofloxacin showed strong antibacterial activity to salmonella thphi and paratyphi A.
Published: June 30, 1998   
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