A clinical trial using co-trimoxazole in an attempt to reduce wound infection rates in dog bite wounds
Open Access
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Vol. 61 (717) , 593-594
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.61.717.593
Abstract
One hundred and thirteen patients were entered into a randomized, prospective double-blind, placebo controlled trial to assess the use of co-trimoxazole in reducing wound infections after dog bites. Although there was a reduction in the wound infection rate from 13.8% in the placebo group to 5.5% in the treatment group this did not reach statistical significance (P = 0.135). If hand wounds are considered separately, no infections occurred in the treatment group and a benefit seems likely.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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