{"id":611,"date":"2015-03-25T11:02:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=611"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:02:42","slug":"clindamycin-vs-bactrim-foruncomplicated-skin-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"Clindamycin Vs Bactrim foruncomplicated skin infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">NEJM published this article for antibiotic choice in uncomplicated skin infection. Patients were categorized as having cellulitis, abscess or both (if lesions of both cellulitis and abscess were present).<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">\u200b 524 patients were enrolled (264 in the clindamycin group and 260 in the TMP-SMX group). They found &#8220;<b>no significant difference between clindamycin and TMP-SMX<\/b>, with respect to either efficacy or side-effect profile, for the treatment of uncomplicated skin infections, including both cellulitis and abscesses&#8221;.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1403789\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEJM published this article for antibiotic choice in uncomplicated skin infection. Patients were categorized as having cellulitis, abscess or both (if lesions of both cellulitis and abscess were present).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infectious-disease","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}