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Summer Replay: Community Acquired Pneumonia and Skin Infections
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:35:35
Publish Date: 2015-07-18 11:15:55
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Aired April 23: Empiric antibiotic choices for community acquired pnuemonia and clindamycin versus trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for skin and soft tissue infections.

Fahad and Amol want you to understand the following:

1. A large, high quality RCT showed that there was no significant difference between an empiric treatment strategy of beta-lactam vs beta-lactam plus macrolide vs respiratory fluoroquinolone for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia requiring hospitalization in a non-ICU setting. 

2. A high quality RCT showed that there was no significant difference between clindamycin and TMP-SMX, with respect to either efficacy or side-effect profile, for the treatment of uncomplicated skin infections in regions with endemic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. 

The papers

DF Postma et al. Antibiotic Treatment Strategies for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Adults. N Engl J Med. 2015 Apr 2;372(14):1312-23. (PubMed).

LG Miller et al. Clindamycin versus Trimethoprim–Sulfamethoxazole for Uncomplicated Skin Infections. N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 19;372(12):1093-103. (PubMed).

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