Volume 11, Number 6—June 2005
Research
Community Prescribing and Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
Galia Barkai*, David Greenberg*, Noga Givon-Lavi*, Eli Dreifuss†, Daniel Vardy†, and Ron Dagan*
Table
Antimicrobial drug prescriptions among Bedouin and Jewish children <5 years of age, southern Israel, 1998–2003
| Antimicrobial agent | Bedouin children |
Jewish children |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total prescriptions | Mean ± SD yearly prescription rate/1,000 children | Total prescriptions | Mean ± SD yearly prescription rate/1,000 children | Mean ± SD yearly difference (Bedouin children vs. Jewish children)/prescription/1,000 children | p value | |
| Amoxicillin | 89,598 | 2,269 ± 266 | 54,090 | 1,480 ± 264 | 789 ± 175 | <0.001 |
| Amoxicillin-clavulanate | 27,729 | 703 ± 91 | 12,173 | 335 ± 88 | 368 ± 51 | <0.001 |
| Phenoxymethyl penicillin | 3,187 | 84 ± 47 | 3,609 | 101 ± 47 | –16 ± 10 | 0.012 |
| Cephalosporins* | 18,625 | 471 ± 69 | 5,751 | 155 ± 34 | 316 ± 66 | <0.001 |
| Erythromycin | 3,492 | 92 ± 51 | 2,256 | 64 ± 45 | 28 ± 66 | 0.002 |
| Azithromycin | 6,958 | 167 ± 108 | 8,998 | 236 ± 124 | –70 ± 49 | 0.018 |
| Total | 149,589 | 3,787 ± 442 | 86,877 | 2,371 ± 315 | 1,416 ± 224 | <0.001 |
*Cefaclor, cephalexin monohydrate, and cefuroxime-axetil.
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