Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (1996) 38, 877-880
© 1996 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Lack of effect of fluconazole on the pharmacokinetics of rifampicin in AIDS patients
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University Hat Yai, Songkla 90112, Thailand
Received 22 January 1996; returned 29 February 1996; accepted 28 May 1996
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To determine the pharmacokinetic properties of ciprofloxacin in the critically ill, we studied seven mechanically ventilated patients with pneumonia during entcral feedings. Subjects received ciprofloxacin 750 mg every 12 h via nasogastric tube and serial serum drug concentrations were measured after the first and fourth dose. After the initial dose, the maximum serum concentration ranged from 1.243.06 mg/L, and the area under the time curve from 012 h ranged from 3.219.65 mg.h/L. Similar levels were noted after dose four. Gastrointestinal absorption of ciprofloxacin in tube fed critically ill patients was decreased, but well above MIC values for many pathogenic bacteria.
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