Efficacy of ceftriaxone in serious bacterial infections
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Efficacy of ceftriaxone in serious bacterial infections.
Ceftriaxone is a new semisynthetic cephalosporin with broad-spectrum in vitro activity and an unusually long serum half-life. The clinical efficacy of ceftriaxone was evaluated in 35 infections in 34 patients; 12 of these patients had skin and soft tissue infections, 10 had infections of the urinary tract, 8 had pneumonia, 2 had biliary tract infections, 1 had sinusitis, 1 had diverticulitis, a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
سال: 1982
ISSN: 0066-4804,1098-6596
DOI: 10.1128/aac.21.3.402