TABLE 1.

Demographic Characteristics of Study Subjects According to Study Drug Assignment

	Overall	Cephalexin Arm	Clindamycin Arm	P
Total no. of subjects	200	100	100	NA
Prior skin infections	69	36	33	.61
Location of enrollment				.55
ED	188	95	93
Clinic	12	5	7
Black	188	92	96	.23
Age				.82
6–12 mo	18	9	9
1–5 y	75	35	40
6–12 y	45	22	23
13–18 y	62	34	28
Female gender	115	55	60	.47
History of asthma	58	25	33	.21
History of eczema	68	33	35	.77
Antibiotic use ≤6 mo	49	28	21	.25
Underlying CMC	19	10	9	.81
Hospitalization in previous year	14	4	10	.10

NA indicates not applicable; CMC, chronic medical condition.