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Table 2 Clinical success rates by study population at the test-of-cure visit

From: A randomized trial of tigecycline versus ampicillin-sulbactam or amoxicillin-clavulanate for the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections

 

Tigecycline CE population N = 209 (%)

Comparator CE population N = 196 (%)

Difference (Tigecycline vs Comparator) (95% CI)

Clinical diagnoses*

Deep soft tissue infections

114/150 (76.0)

103/132 (78.0)

-2.0 (-12.6, 8.5)

Major abscess

30/36 (83.3)

34/43 (79.1)

4.3 (-15.5, 24.0)

Infected ulcers

17/22 (77.3)

15/20 (75.0)

2.3 (-28.3, 32.9)

Other populations

Diabetes mellitus

46/60 (76.7)

46/66 (69.7)

7.0 (-10.0, 24.0)

Peripheral vascular disease

20/27 (74.1)

16/20 (80.0)

-5.9 (-34.4, 22.5)

Prior antibiotic failure

27/35 (77.1)

26/34 (76.5)

0.7 (-22.1, 23.5)

  1. *Includes 2 CE patients with burns: 1 tigecycline cure and 1 comparator failure; Calculated using asymptomatic method corrected for continuity. CE, clinically evaluable; CI, confidence interval.