Chloramphenicol and phenobarbitone--a drug interaction.

نویسندگان

  • R A Bloxham
  • G M Durbin
  • T Johnson
  • M H Winterborn
چکیده

Two infants with meningitis who were treated with phenobarbitone and high-dose chloramphenicol showed progressive falls in the peak blood levels of chloramphenicol. A standard chloramphenicol dose of 50 mg/kg daily would have produced subtherapeutic blood levels after only a few days. The importance of measuring serial blood chloramphenicol concentrations is stressed.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of disease in childhood

دوره 54 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1979