Cefditoren pivoxil associated rash and arthralgia in a child.
Cefditoren pivoxil is an oral antimicrobial used increasingly in pediatric bacterial infections. We report a case of rash and arthralgia following administration of cefditoren pivoxil for lower respiratory tract infection in a four-year-old female child. On discontinuation of the antibiotic, the child recovered full function of the knee joint within seven days. The causality of the event assessed as per the WHO-UMC system for standardized case causality assessment criteria can be considered as 'probable'. Analyzed by the Naranjo's ADR probability scale, the score was 7, which also makes it a 'probable' event.
Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India. manabn@gmail.com
Manab
M
Nandy
Ananya
A
Mandal
Santanu K
SK
Tripathi
Abhiram
A
Chakrabarti