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Article: Oral alternative to penicillin for adult erysipelas. (news: clinical digest).(pristinamycin could be an alternative treatment for erysipelas)(Brief Article)
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- Nursing Standard
- Article date:
- December 11, 2002
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Pristinamycin could be an alternative to the standard regimen of penicillin for treating erysipelas with the advantage of an oral route of administration.
Erysipelas is an acute superficial infection usually affecting the legs and commonly caused by Streptococci. The standard treatment is intravenous penicillin G followed by oral penicillin. French researchers undertook a multicentre, randomised trial of oral pristinamycin versus penicillin involving 289 hospital inpatients with erysipelas.
The clinical response rate at the end of treatment on days 14 to 17 were 89 and 74 per cent for pristinamycin and ...