[Therapy with azithromycin in pediatric infections].

Azithromycin (AZM) was orally administered to 12 pediatric patients with the following bacterial infections: pharyngitis in four cases, tonsillitis in one, pharyngo-bronchitis in two, and mycoplasmal pneumonia in five. In eleven of the twelve cases (91.7%) was the drug found effective. Neither abnormal clinical findings nor abnormal laboratory test results changes were observed. Eleven of the twelve pediatric patients claimed that the formulation of the drug is easy to take. The above results suggest that AZM is a useful antibiotic drug in the treatment of pediatric patients with bacterial infections.