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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Randomized controlled trial of the relative efficacy of high-dose intravenous ceftriaxone and oral cefixime combined with doxycycline for the treatment of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae co-infection

 

Doxycycline + ceftriaxone

(n = 61)

Doxycycline + cefixime (n = 64)

p

Age (mean (SD))

30 ± 6.98

34.61 ± 10.19

0.282

BMI (mean (SD)

23.64 ± 3.2

22.6 ± 2.83

0.17

Sex (male) (n (%))

58 (95.08)

59 (92.19)

0.718

Medical history (n)

  

 Diabetes

2

1

0.613

 Hypertension

1

2

1

 Renal disease

2

9

0.055

 Liver disease

11

20

0.101

Sites of infection (n)

  

 Genital

36

41

0.586

 Pharyngeal

12

7

0.216

 Rectal

4

6

0.744

 Genital + pharyngeal

8

6

0.578

 Rectal + pharyngeal

1

4

0.366

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BMC Infectious Diseases

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