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Single-dose ceftriaxone versus multi-dose cefotaxime as short-term antimicrobial prophylaxis in urologic surgery.
Abstract:
This controlled multicenter study on 407 evaluable patients demonstrates the equal efficacy of two short-term antimi crobial prophylactic regimens in urological surgery involving a single dose of a long-acting cephalosporin, ceftriaxone, in comparison with a multiple dose of cefotaxime. Fifty-three of the 196 patients (27%) on the cefotaxime regimen and 47 of the 211 patients (22.3%) who received ceftriaxone showed postoperative infectious complications. There were no differences in these results.
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