Equivalency Of Oral Amoxicillin Vs Injectable Penicillin In Children With Severe Pneumonia

Summary

This is a clinical trial to determine if oral amoxicillin is equivalent in efficacy to injectable penicillin (the standard treatment) in the treatment of WHO-defined severe pneumonia in children between the ages of 2 and 59 months.

Timeline

Start

1998-01

Primary completion

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Completion

2000-01

Publications

• Results Jeena P, Thea DM, MacLeod WB, Chisaka N, Fox MP, Coovadia HM, Qazi S; Amoxicillin Penicillin Pneumonia International Study (APPIS Group). Failure of standard antimicrobial therapy in children aged 3-59 months with mild or asymptomatic HIV infection and severe pneumonia. Bull World Health Organ. 2006 Apr;84(4):269-75. doi: 10.2471/blt.04.015222. Epub 2006 Apr 13.

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