Cochrane · systematic review · CD001167
Antimicrobials for treating symptomatic non‐typhoidal Salmonella infection
Onwuezobe, IA, Oshun, PO, Odigwe, CC · Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews · 2012 · Cochrane Library
Infectious DiseasesAMSTAR 2: not assessed
SoF tableOnly the outcomes this review put in its Summary of Findings table are listed (the Cochrane Handbook caps them at about seven per comparison). Its other analyses are not shown here.
Questions
6
current version
GRADE rated
6
No studies
0
Included studies
NR
No studies 0 · 0%Ungraded 0 · 0%Very low 5 · 83.3%Low 1 · 16.7%Moderate 0 · 0%High 0 · 0%
Ungraded means an effect was reported without a GRADE rating; it is not a gap. No studies means the review found nothing to answer the question. The six categories are a display order, not a score.
Questions and results
Antibiotics versus placebo or no treatment for treating symptomatic NTS infection
Population: patients symptomatic for NTS infection
| Outcome | Effect | Evidence | Status / GRADE |
|---|---|---|---|
Duration of diarrhoea (days) Antibiotics vs placebo or no treatment | no estimate extracted | 4 studies · 202 participants | Low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Duration of fever (days) Antibiotics vs placebo or no treatment | no estimate extracted | 2 studies · 107 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Duration of illness (days) Antibiotics vs placebo or no treatment | no estimate extracted | 2 studies · 116 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Clinical treatment failure (Persistent or worsening symptoms at the end of treatment) Antibiotics vs placebo or no treatment | RR 0.88 [0.62, 1.25] | 7 studies · 440 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, inconsistency |
Presence of diarrhoea at 2‐4 days Antibiotics vs placebo or no treatment | RR 1.75 [0.42, 7.21] | 1 study · 46 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |
Presence of diarrhoea at 5‐7 days Antibiotics vs placebo or no treatment | RR 0.83 [0.62, 1.12] | 2 studies · 192 participants | Very low Downgraded: risk of bias, imprecision, indirectness |