Soley Carolina, Arguedas Adriano, Porras Wendy, Guevara Silvia, Loaiza Cecilia, Pérez Alexandra, Rincón Guillermo, Schultz Malka, Arguedas Jorge, Brilla Roberto
Instituto de Atención Pediátrica, P.O. Box 607-1150, San José, Costa Rica.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2005 Jul;49(7):3056-8. doi: 10.1128/AAC.49.7.3056-3058.2005.
This study analyzes the in vitro activities of levofloxacin and other commonly used antimicrobials against middle ear fluid, nasopharyngeal, and oropharyngeal pathogens obtained from children with otitis media at risk of having a resistant pathogen. Levofloxacin proved to be very active against these pathogens and had intermediate activity against Streptococcus pyogenes.