Antimicrobial vs placebo/no treatment
Duration of diarrhoea · Adults and children with cholera diarrhoea
1 finding from 1 review
- no estimate extracted19 studies · 1013 participantsModerate
Findings
What do systematic reviews say?
8 questions · 8 findings · 2 reviews · Headline outcomes only
No studies found 0 · 0%GRADE not reported 0 · 0%Very low 0 · 0%Low 3 · 37.5%Moderate 5 · 62.5%High 0 · 0%
SHORT vs long duration of antimicrobials
Duration of diarrhoea · Adults and children with cholera diarrhoea
Short showed no clear difference in diarrhoea duration compared with long duration of antimicrobials (low certainty).
1 finding from 1 review
- MD 0.347 studies · 431 participantsLow
Tetracycline vs doxycycline
Duration of diarrhoea · Adults and children with cholera diarrhoea
1 finding from 1 review
- no estimate extracted3 studies · 230 participantsModerate
Tetracycline vs quinolones
Duration of diarrhoea · Adults and children with cholera diarrhoea
1 finding from 1 review
- no estimate extracted3 studies · 259 participantsModerate
Doxycycline vs quinolones
Duration of diarrhoea · Adults and children with cholera diarrhoea
1 finding from 1 review
- no estimate extracted3 studies · 126 participantsLow
Azithromycin vs ciprofloxacin
Duration of diarrhoea · Adults and children with cholera diarrhoea
1 finding from 1 review
- no estimate extracted2 studies · 375 participantsModerate
Azithromycin vs erythromycin
Duration of diarrhoea · Adults and children with cholera diarrhoea
1 finding from 1 review
- no estimate extracted2 studies · 179 participantsModerate
Antibiotics vs placebo or no treatment
Duration of diarrhoea · patients symptomatic for NTS infection
1 finding from 1 review
- Antimicrobials for treating symptomatic non‐typhoidal Salmonella infection 2012 · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyno estimate extracted4 studies · 202 participantsLow