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 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 …

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 …

Eighteen children with bacteriologically confirmed severe typhoid fever were initially treated
intravenously with ciprofloxacin (10 mg/kg of body weight per day). Clinical cure with …

From 1982 to 1995, 71 children admitted in our medical center were diagnosed to have
typhoid fever by culture or serology. Of the 71 children, most (83%) were aged 5-15 years …

Increasing prevalence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella typhi strains in pediatric
cases of typhoid fever and chemotherapy restrictions in children, such as fluoroquinolones …