Table 2.
Treatment times previously of the enrolled patients and its eradication rates
|
Treatment times
|
500 mg b.i.d.
|
750 mg b.i.d.
|
500 mg t.i.d.
|
| 1 | 93.4% (127/136) | 97.5% (77/79) | 92.6% (87/94) |
| 2 | 83.3% (15/18) | 87.5% (28/32) | 90.9% (20/22) |
| ≥ 3 | 100% (3/3) | 71.4% (5/7) | 100% (3/3) |
| Rescue therapy1 | 85.7% (18/21) | 84.6% (33/39) | 92.0% (23/25) |
1
Rescue therapy was defined as patients who had eradicated therapy once or more but failed.
500 mg b.i.d.: Tetracycline twice daily; 750 mg b.i.d.: Tetracycline twice daily; 500 mg t.i.d.: Tetracycline three times daily.