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Levofloxacin in first-line eradication regimens for Helicobacter pylori: better test antibiotic susceptibility before treating
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We sincerely congratulate Romano et al1 for their recent manuscript in Gut showing that levofloxacin-containing sequential therapy can overcome suboptimal cure rates of clarithromycin-containing sequential therapy (≤80% in the intention-to-treat analysis), in a setting with a high clarithromycin resistance rate (20%) but a low levofloxacin resistance rate (3%). Interestingly, we failed to replicate their results in a prior trial with quite a similar design, …
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