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Clinical Infectious Diseases · Randomized Controlled Trial · 2024-03-11
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Linezolid versus tedizolid for acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections: a randomized noninferiority trial

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Study design

Design
Multicenter, double-blind, randomized noninferiority trial
Population
Adults with acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections
Setting
Multinational
Sample size
n = 720
Intervention
Tedizolid 200 mg daily x6 days
Comparator
Linezolid 600 mg twice daily x10 days

Provenance

Source
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Source type
peer_reviewed
Content analyzed
abstract

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