Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2002) 50, 433-434
© 2002 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
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Azithromycin is effective in patients with chronic bronchitis
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Box 357660, Seattle, WA 98195-7660, USA
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Sir,
In their recent meta-analysis, Contopoulos-Ioannidis et al.1 concluded that azithromycin is more effective than the comparator antibiotics in patients with community-acquired pneumonia but not in patients