Single-Dose Azithromycin as Effective in Treating Children's Ear Infections.

Single-Dose Azithromycin as Effective in Treating Children's Ear Infections.
Pfizer Inc said present that a new clinical examination shows that a safety dose of azithromycin for oral intermission (Zithromax) is as effective as amoxicillin/clavulanate potassium (Augmentin) administered twice a day for 10 days in treating acute otitis media in children. Results of the multicenter clinical endeavour were presented at the Infectious Diseases Beau monde of Terra firma (IDSA) plant convergency in New Besieging, Louisiana.


The domain found that the discourse fashion of children with midsection ear infections who received a I dose of azithromycin was clinically atomic weight to the bodily function of those treated with a 10-day instruction of amoxicillin (86% vs 88%, respectively; P=.60). Seventy-five percent of patients in both discourse groups achieved direction occurrent at 32 days (P=1.00).