Table 3 Outcomes of treatment of pulmonary actinomycosis with various oral antibiotics
From: Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors in patients with pulmonary actinomycosis
All patients (n = 68) | Initial antibiotics alone (n = 53) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cured | Failure | Relapse | Total | Cured | Failure | Relapse | Total | |
AMX-CLV | 27 (90.0) | 3 (10.0) | 0 (0) | 30 | 25 (89.3) | 3 (10.7) | 0 (0.0) | 28 |
AMP-SUL | 20 (80.0) | 2 (8.0) | 3 (12.0) | 25 | 10 (71.5) | 1 (7.1) | 3 (21.4) | 14 |
Amoxicillin | 4 (80.0) | 1 (20.0) | 0 (0) | 5 | 3 (75.0) | 1 (25.0) | 0 (0) | 4 |
Ampicillin | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 |
Clindamycin | 3 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 |
Others | 3 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 | 3 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 |