Эффективность и безопасность лечения нетяжелой внебольничной пневмонии у молодых мужчин укороченными курсами амоксициллина

The integrated assessment of clinical efficiency and safety of amoxicillin therapy in a daily dose 1,5 g in short-course (5 days) versus traditional 10-day oral regimens was made in random groups (the main group 42 patients, the control group 43 patients) patients who were young men with uncomplicated unilateral community-acquired pneumonia hospitalized at a pulmanology department. Short-course therapy of 5 days of amoxicillin was not found to be less effective or safer than a traditional 10-day penicillin therapy. Slower improvement of the symptoms of cough and expectoration observed in the main group is probably caused by more pathogenic initial microorganism.