Costs and effectiveness of ciprofloxacin and ceftriaxone in treatment of typhoid fever in children in Thailand.

The burden of typhoid fever remains high in impoverished settings, and increasing antibiotic resistance is making treatment costly. The purposes of this study were: to compare the costs and the effectiveness of typhoid programs between oral and injection treatments in pediatric patients at Songkhla...

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Main Authors: Wannee Limpitikul,, Phechnoy Singchungchai,
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2013
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6106/1/vol_3_no_1_2013_25.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/6106/
http://www.ijphr.ukm.my
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Summary:The burden of typhoid fever remains high in impoverished settings, and increasing antibiotic resistance is making treatment costly. The purposes of this study were: to compare the costs and the effectiveness of typhoid programs between oral and injection treatments in pediatric patients at Songkhla Hospital.