Table 7.
Cumulative cost per SU and per antibiotic course by drug class (US$)
Quinolones | Cephalosporin | Glycopeptides | BSPa | NSPa | Carbapenem | Aminoglycoside | Macrolide | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Thailand | per SU | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.1 |
per course | 19.5 | 9.7 | 35.1 | 10.4 | 2.8 | 12.8 | 12.5 | 0.3 | |
US | per SU | 0.62 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.6 |
per course | 17.4 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 9.3 | 18.6 | 2.7 | 3.1 | 1.7 |
a BSP Broad spectrum penicillin, NSP Narrow spectrum penicillin