Abstract
Short course beta-lactam antibiotic therapy for acute otitis media (AOM) should improve patient adherence, but it has not been evaluated since the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine became routinely used in the United States. In a prospective, investigator-blinded, multicenter study, 425 patients, age 6 months-6 years, with a clinical diagnosis of nonrefractory AOM were randomized to receive either 5 days of cefdinir therapy (14 mg/kg divided twice daily) or 10 days of amoxicillin/clavulanate therapy (45/6.4 mg/kg divided twice daily). Clinical response was assessed at end of therapy (2-4 days postantibiotic, respectively) and week 4 (study days 25-28). With no difference in demographics between treatment groups, overall the mean age (+/-SD) was 2.8 +/- 1.8 years, 65% had received conjugated pneumococcal vaccination and 48% had bilateral AOM. The satisfactory clinical response rate at end of therapy was comparable for cefdinir versus amoxicillin/clavulanate (88%, 170 of 194 versus 85%, 164 of 192; 95% CI -4.9, 9.3). Although this must be interpreted with caution, cefdinir showed an apparent trend for higher efficacy than amoxicillin/clavulanate (92%, 72 of 78 versus 77%, 55 of 71; P = 0.019) in a subsample of patients 6...Continue Reading
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