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Trial reportAntimicrobial agents and chemotherapy2005

In vitro activities of levofloxacin and comparable agents against middle ear fluid, nasopharyngeal, and oropharyngeal pathogens obtained from Costa Rican children with recurrent otitis media or failing other antibiotic therapy.

Carolina Soley, Adriano Arguedas, Wendy Porras, Silvia Guevara, Cecilia Loaiza, Alexandra Pérez, Guillermo Rincón, Malka Schultz, Jorge Arguedas, Roberto Brilla

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Trial report in Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Carolina SoleyInstituto de Atención Pediátrica, P.O. Box 607-1150, San José, Costa Rica.
Adriano Arguedas
Wendy Porras
Silvia Guevara
Cecilia Loaiza
Alexandra Pérez
Guillermo Rincón
Malka Schultz
Jorge Arguedas
Roberto Brilla

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study analyzes the in vitro activities of levofloxacin and other commonly used antimicrobials against middle ear fluid, nasopharyngeal, and oropharyngeal pathogens obtained from children with otitis media at risk of having a resistant pathogen. Levofloxacin proved to be very active against these pathogens and had intermediate activity against Streptococcus pyogenes.

Indexed as

LevofloxacinAnti-Bacterial AgentsChild, PreschoolCosta RicaHaemophilus influenzaeHumansInfantMicrobial Sensitivity TestsMoraxella catarrhalisNasopharynxOfloxacinOropharynxOtitis Media with EffusionRecurrenceStreptococcus pneumoniaeStreptococcus pyogenesAnti-Bacterial AgentsLevofloxacinOfloxacin

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PMID15980399
PMCPMC1168636

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