What antibiotics are best in typhoid and paratyphoid infections? Evidence Update, Other Infectious Diseases Series, June 2010.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2010

• Document Type: Briefing
• Theme: Health

Abstract

Each Evidence Update is a 2-page summary of a Cochrane Review of healthcare interventions relevant to people in low-income and middle-income countries.

This Evidence Update is adapted from Thaver D, Zaidi AKM, Critchley JA, Azmatullah A, Madni SA, Bhutta ZA. Fluoroquinolones for treating typhoid and paratyphoid fever (enteric fever). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD004530. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004530.pub3.

For adults fluoroquinolones seem best in adults, but data in children are limited.

Citation

Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK, 2 pp

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What antibiotics are best in typhoid and paratyphoid infections? Evidence Update, Other Infectious Diseases Series, June 2010.

Published 1 January 2010