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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1985) 16, 359-366
© 1985 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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Oral cefuroxime axetil: clinical pharmacology and comparative dose studies in urinary tract infection

D. H. Adams, M. J. Wood, I. D. Farrell, C. Fox and A. P. Ball

Communicable and Tropical Diseases Unit and Regional Public Health Laboratory, East Birmingham Hospital Birmingham 9, England Cameron Hospital, Windygates, Fife and Area Laboratory Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland

accepted 13 March 1985

Cefuroxime axetil, an orally absorbed pro-drug of cefuroxime was used to treat a mainly elderly group of patients with symptomatic urinary tract infections. The drug was clinically effective and the bacteriological short term and long term cure rates (55% and 48% respectively) comparable to those of other antibiotics. The study had to be terminated however after the development of three cases of antibiotic associated colitis. Studies of the pharmacokinetics of the drug in volunteers gave inconsistent results suggesting that there may be variable bioavailability of the compound.


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