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SUBMITTER: Garcia-Prats AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6233673 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20181101 11
Safety concerns persist for long-term pediatric fluoroquinolone use. Seventy children (median age, 2.1 years) treated with levofloxacin 10-20 mg/kg once daily for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (median observation time, 11.8 months) had few musculoskeletal events, no levofloxacin-attributed serious adverse events, and no Fridericia-corrected QT interval >450 ms. Long-term levofloxacin was safe and well tolerated. ...[more]