Canadian Medical Association Journal
Respiratory fluoroquinolones effective in treating pneumonia
Published in Blood Weekly, December 18th, 2008
Fluoroquinolones are highly effective in treating community-acquired pneumonia compared with β-lactams and marolides and result in fewer adverse outcomes, found a meta-analysis conducted by a team of researchers from the Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences in Greece and Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts http://www.cmaj.ca/press/pg1269.pdf. These antibiotics are also effective in treating severe forms of pneumonia that require hospitalization.
"Fluoroquinolones may be considered for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia, particularly for the more severe forms as well as for patients who require admission to hospital and initial intravenous...
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