Study Comparing the Safety and Efficacy of Cethromycin to Clarithromycin for the Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
Summary
The purpose of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of cethromycin to clarithromycin for the treatment of mild to moderate community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).
Description
Lower respiratory tract infections remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Increasing rates of antibiotic resistance and newer, more pervasive pneumonia-causative pathogens contribute to this statistic. Currently available macrolide antibiotics for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia are slowly losing effectiveness, resulting in the need to develop newer drugs to fight resistant infections. In this study, we compare the safety and efficacy of a common macrolide, clarithromycin, to a new ketolide, cethromycin.
Study Design
Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment
Conditions
Pneumonia
Intervention
Cethromycin, Clarithromycin
Location
ARGENTINA - Advanced Life Sciences
Woodridge
Illinois
United States
60517
Status
Completed
Source
Advanced Life Sciences, Inc.
Results (where available)
Links
- Source: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00336544
- Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on July 15, 2010
Published on BioPortfolio: 2014-08-27T03:44:12-0400
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Pneumonia, Lipid
Pneumonia due to aspiration or inhalation of various oily or fatty substances.
Pneumonia, Rickettsial
Pneumonia caused by infection with bacteria of the family RICKETTSIACEAE.
Pneumonia, Necrotizing
Severe complication of pneumonia characterized by liquefaction of lung tissue.
Murine Pneumonia Virus
A species of the genus PNEUMOVIRUS causing pneumonia in mice.
Chlamydial Pneumonia
Pneumonia caused by infections with the genus CHLAMYDIA; and CHLAMYDOPHILA, usually with CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE.
