Evdoxia Kyriazopoulou, Dimitrios Sinapidis, Stamatios Halvatzis, Dimitrios Velissaris, Nikolaos Alexiou, Vasilios Kosmas, Maria-Evangelia Adami, Miltiades Kyprianou, Aikaterini Kyprianou, Aggelos Stefos, Malvina Lada, Pantelis Koutoukas, Maria Pavlaki, Anna Kyriakoudi, Anna Makina, Charalambos Gogos, Michael S Niederman, Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis

Survival benefit associated with clarithromycin in severe community-acquired pneumonia: A matched comparator study

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents 2020 Jan;55(1):105836
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2019.10.017View article 🡇

Funding

The works were supported by the BMBF within the framework of the “MetaZIK”/ZIK Septomics Jena (03Z2J521), the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Art (projects B-309-00014 and A 309-04002), and by Thüringer Aufbaubank (“RNA Score 2007 FE 014”). Part of the study was funded by the Hellenic Institute for the Study of Sepsis.

Keywords: Azithromycin; Clarithromycin; Mortality; Pneumonia; Quinolones; β-lactams