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Article: Short-Course, High-Dose Antibiotic Therapy May Reduce Risk Of Carrying Drug-Resistant Strep.(Brief Article)
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- Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA
- Article date:
- July 29, 2001
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2001 JUL 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
Higher-dose antibiotic therapy administered over a short period appears to reduce the risk of carriage of drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae following treatment for respiratory tract infections in children, according to an article in the July 4, 2001, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Stephanie J. Schrag, DPhil, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues conducted a randomized trial to determine whether short-course, high-dose therapy with amoxicillin (a broad-spectrum antibiotic in the penicillin family) reduces the risk that children ...