Effects of Prior Effective Therapy on the Efficacy of Daptomycin and Ceftriaxone for the Treatment of Community‐Acquired Pneumonia

Pertel, Peter; Bernardo, Patricia; Fogarty, Charles; A. Matthews, Peter; Northland, R; Benvenuto, Mark; M. Thorne, Grace; A. Luperchio, Steven; D. Arbeit, Robert; Alder, Jeff

doi:10.1086/533441

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Effects of Prior Effective Therapy on the Efficacy of Daptomycin and Ceftriaxone for the Treatment of Community‐Acquired Pneumonia

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • Mar 14, 2008

Authors:

Peter Pertel

Patricia Bernardo

Charles Fogarty

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We sought to compare daptomycin with ceftriaxone for the treatment of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). METHODS: Two phase-3 randomized, double-blind trials that enrolled adult patients hospitalized with CAP were conducted. Patients received intravenous daptomycin (4 mg/kg...

Subject

Daptomycin

Medicine

Ceftriaxone

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