Clinical Efficacy of Amoxicillin Given Twice or Three Times a Day Among Children With Non-severe Pneumonia

Summary

The purpose of the study is to compare the clinical efficacy of amoxicillin given twice or three times a day to children with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia.

Timeline

Start

2006-11

Primary completion

2011-05

Completion

2011-05

Publications

• Nascimento-Carvalho AC, Vilas-Boas AL, Fontoura MH, Vuorinen T, Nascimento-Carvalho CM; PNEUMOPAC-Efficacy Study Group. Respiratory viruses among children with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia: A prospective cohort study. J Clin Virol. 2018 Aug;105:77-83. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2018.06.003. Epub 2018 Jun 6.
• Nascimento-Carvalho AC, Vilas-Boas AL, Fontoura MH, Xu M, Vuorinen T, Soderlund-Venermo M, Ruuskanen O, Nascimento-Carvalho CM; PNEUMOPAC-Efficacy Study Group. Serologically diagnosed acute human bocavirus 1 infection in childhood community-acquired pneumonia. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2018 Jan;53(1):88-94. doi: 10.1002/ppul.23891. Epub 2017 Oct 13.
• Nascimento-Carvalho CM, Xavier-Souza G, Vilas-Boas AL, Fontoura MH, Barral A, Puolakkainen M, Ruuskanen O; PNEUMOPAC-Efficacy Study Group. Evolution of acute infection with atypical bacteria in a prospective cohort of children with community-acquired pneumonia receiving amoxicillin. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2017 Aug 1;72(8):2378-2384. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkx126.
• Vilas-Boas AL, Fontoura MS, Xavier-Souza G, Araujo-Neto CA, Andrade SC, Brim RV, Noblat L, Barral A, Cardoso MR, Nascimento-Carvalho CM; PNEUMOPAC-Efficacy Study Group. Comparison of oral amoxicillin given thrice or twice daily to children between 2 and 59 months old with non-severe pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2014 Jul;69(7):1954-9. doi: 10.1093/jac/dku070. Epub 2014 Mar 19.
• Xavier-Souza G, Vilas-Boas AL, Fontoura MS, Araujo-Neto CA, Andrade SC, Cardoso MR, Nascimento-Carvalho CM; PNEUMOPAC-Efficacy Study Group. The inter-observer variation of chest radiograph reading in acute lower respiratory tract infection among children. Pediatr Pulmonol. 2013 May;48(5):464-9. doi: 10.1002/ppul.22644. Epub 2012 Aug 8.

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