Effective Antibiotic Treatment of MRSA

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Skin Diseases, Infectious

In brief

To evaluate the effective duration (in days) to clinical improvement of outpatient antibiotic regimens in the treatment of superficial abscesses caused by MRSA in patients that present to the emergency department.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00388310

Run by

Christiana Care Health Services

People needed

33

Starts

2006-02-01

Expected to finish

2008-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-11-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• All patients age 18 and older, presenting to the emergency department with an abscess with a diameter greater than three centimeters
• Informed consent

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who are presumed to have community-acquired pathogens
• Under 18
• Abscess less than three centimeters in diameter

Where it is running

• Christiana Care Health Services — Newark, Delaware, United States

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