Low Risk of Primary Clostridium difficile Infection With Tetracyclines: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis | Zendy

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Low Risk of Primary Clostridium difficile Infection With Tetracyclines: A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis

Author(s) -

Raseen Tariq,

Janice Cho,

Saloni Kapoor,

Robert Orenstein,

Siddharth Singh,

Darrell S. Pardi,

Sahil Khanna

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix833

Subject(s) - medicine , clostridium difficile , meta analysis , odds ratio , confidence interval , cohort study , antibiotics , relative risk , randomized controlled trial , medline , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , political science , law

The choice of antibiotics for systemic infections in patients with a high risk of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains a clinical practice dilemma. Although some studies suggest that tetracyclines may be associated with a lower risk of CDI than other antibiotics, other results are conflicting. We conducted a systematic review and metaanalysis of studies that assessed the risk of CDI with tetracyclines compared to other antibiotics.

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