Vol.96 No.11 contentsPRACTICA OTO-RHINO-LARYNGOLOGICA
Vol. 96 No.11 November 2003
Antibiotics Therapy for Acute Bacterial Tonsillitis
Shinya Takano and Hideki Kurihara
Tokyo Women's Medical University Daini Hospital
We reviewed the treatment of 96 patients with acute bacterial tonsillitis.
Using multivariate analysis, we examined whether oral or intravenous administration of antibiotics (cephems, penicillin, other b-lactams, tetracycline, clindamycin, new quinolones, and macrorides) had an influence on the treatment period.
We found that the best class of oral antibiotics for acute bacterial tonsillitis was cefcapene pivoxil (CFPN-PI) and the best intravenous agent was sulbactum/cefoperazone (SBT/CPZ).
Key words : retrospective study, acute bacterial tonsillitis, antibiotics, oral administration, intravenous injection