FIG 1.

Kaplan-Meier curves of the time to defervescence for 180 patients who initially had fever and received cefuroxime or cefotaxime for the treatment of complicated APN. The time to fever clearance from the time of administration of the first hospital dose of cefuroxime or cefotaxime among hospitalized APN patients is shown. The estimated median fever clearance times were 55 h (95% CI, 52.5 to 65.3 h) for the cefuroxime group and 55 h (95% CI, 51.0 to 63.6 h) for the cefotaxime group (P = 0.710).