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Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole compared with ampicillin in the treatment of acute otitis media. 1980

P A Shurin, and S I Pelton, and A Donner, and J Finkelstein, and J O Klein

We treated 132 children with acute otitis media in a randomized trial comparing trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole and ampicillin. The antibacterial efficacy of the drugs was assessed primarly from the results of cultures of middle ear aspirates obtained during or after the course of therapy; persistent, recurrent, and new infections of the middle ear were documented in both groups of patients but did not differ significantly. Both drug regimens were well accepted by the patients and were not associated with serious side effects or toxicity. TMP-SMZ is an effective alternate to AMP or to other accepted regimens for initial treatment of acute otitis media.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D008297	Male		Males
D010033	Otitis Media	Inflammation of the MIDDLE EAR including the AUDITORY OSSICLES and the EUSTACHIAN TUBE.	Middle Ear Inflammation,Inflammation, Middle Ear
D011897	Random Allocation	A process involving chance used in therapeutic trials or other research endeavor for allocating experimental subjects, human or animal, between treatment and control groups, or among treatment groups. It may also apply to experiments on inanimate objects.	Randomization,Allocation, Random
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002675	Child, Preschool	A child between the ages of 2 and 5.	Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D004338	Drug Combinations	Single preparations containing two or more active agents, for the purpose of their concurrent administration as a fixed dose mixture.	Drug Combination,Combination, Drug,Combinations, Drug
D004341	Drug Evaluation	Any process by which toxicity, metabolism, absorption, elimination, preferred route of administration, safe dosage range, etc., for a drug or group of drugs is determined through clinical assessment in humans or veterinary animals.	Evaluation Studies, Drug,Drug Evaluation Studies,Drug Evaluation Study,Drug Evaluations,Evaluation Study, Drug,Evaluation, Drug,Evaluations, Drug,Studies, Drug Evaluation,Study, Drug Evaluation
D005122	Exudates and Transudates	Exudates are fluids, CELLS, or other cellular substances that are slowly discharged from BLOOD VESSELS usually from inflamed tissues. Transudates are fluids that pass through a membrane or squeeze through tissue or into the EXTRACELLULAR SPACE of TISSUES. Transudates are thin and watery and contain few cells or PROTEINS.	Transudates,Exudates,Transudates and Exudates,Exudate,Transudate
D005260	Female		Females