Antibiotic Eases Symptoms in Acute Asthma Attacks - CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today
LONDON, April 12 - The antibiotic Ketek (telithromycin) improved recovery from an acute asthma attack by three days, reduced symptoms, and improved hospital-based lung function measurements, researchers here reported.
Ketek is a ketolide, a new class of antibiotics structurally related to the macrolides. It has a bactericidal effect against the atypical pathogens Chlamydophila pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and for that reason the researchers decided to study its potential role in acute asthma attacks, according to a report in the April 13 New England Journal of Medicine.
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