Sentences with phrase «while azithromycin»

While azithromycin interferes with the bacteria's ability to make proteins, and ceftriaxone causes the cell wall to fall apart, this new drug acts on a crucial protein involved in bacterial DNA replication.

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But while an injection of ceftriaxone and an azithromycin pill are supposed to be used in combination, this may not always be the case for all patients.

However, a higher number of studies looked at indirect comparisons and in those cases tetracycline appeared to have larger benefits than doxycycline, norfloxacin and trimethoprim - sulfamethoxazole, while single dose azithromycin shortened the duration of diarrhea by over a day compared to ciprofloxacin and by half a day compared to erythromycin.

The data also show that prescriptions of penicillin, the antibiotic recommended to treat strep throat, remained at 9 percent while prescribing for azithromycin, a more expensive antibiotic, increased from being too infrequent to measure reliably in1997 - 1998 to 15 percent of visits in 2009 - 2010.

Ray and his colleagues, who examined Medicaid patients from ’92 — ’06 and studied millions of prescriptions, determined that patients taking azithromycin were 2.5 times more likely to die from a cardiovascular condition while on the drug than patients taking the drug amoxicillin.

This generally means that the patient is likely to take all the pills, decreasing his / her chances of getting a bug resistant to the antibiotic (Azithromycin is usually ingested over five days, while many other antibiotics must be taken for 10 days.)