TABLE 5.
Disease severitya | Moxifloxacin
|
Levofloxacin
|
||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sample size | Temp (°C)b | Survival (%) | Sample size | Temp (°C)b | Survival (%) | |
Moderate | 31 | 33.3 ± 0.7 | 31/31 (100) | 42 | 33.5 ± 0.7 | 37/42 (88)c |
Severe | 27 | 31 ± 0.7 | 21/27 (78) | 17 | 31 ± 0.2 | 12/17 (70)d |
Moderate surface temperature of ≥32°C; Severe, surface temperature of <32 to >30°C.
Temperature prior to treatment. Values are means ± standard deviations.
P = 0.07 compared with the value for the moxifloxacin group.
P = 0.72 compared with the value for the moxifloxacin group.