Background. Despite concerns about safety in children, fluoroquinolone antibiotics have
become the treatment of choice in patients with multidrug-resistant typhoid fever in Vietnam …

Background Despite concerns about safety in children, fluoroquinolone antibiotics have
become the treatment of choice in patients with multidrug-resistant typhoid fever in Vietnam …

An open, randomised comparison of 2 or 3 days of oral ofloxacin (10 mg/kg/day) for
uncomplicated typhoid fever was conducted in 235 Vietnamese children. Multi-drug …

An open randomized comparison of 2 days (Ofx2) versus 3 days (Ofx3) of oral ofloxacin
treatment (15 mg/kg/day) was conducted with Vietnamese children between 1 and 15 years …

We randomly allocated 80 children with suspected multidrug-resistant tyhpoid fever to
therapy with either cefixime or ceftriaxone. Of these, an alternative diagnosis was …

Objective: To compare the clinical efficacy of ciprofloxacin vs ceftriaxone in terms of the
proportion of children becoming afebrile in 96 hours. Study Design: Randomized controlled …

In order to evaluate clinical and bacteriological efficacy of Cefpodoxime Proxetil (CP) in
typhoid fever in comparison to cefixime (CF), we assessed 140 children with suspected …

Although the efficacy of ceftriaxone in typhoid fever is well documented, the precise duration
of ceftriaxone therapy in children with typhoid fever is not established and varies from 3 to 14 …

Isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi that are multidrug resistant (MDR, resistant to
chloramphenicol, ampicillin, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) and have reduced …

Ofloxacin has been successfully used in the treatment of typhoid fever and Salmonella
infections of adults for many years. However, it has rarely been tried for the typhoid fever of …