NIAID-sponsored study to assess shorter-duration antibiotics in children

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Physicians at five US medical centers are planning to enroll up to 400 children in a clinical trial to evaluate whether a shorter course of antibiotics -- five days instead of 10 -- is effective at treating community-acquired pneumonia in children who show improvement after the first few days of taking antibiotics. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of NIH, is sponsoring the clinical trial.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news