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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

ΚΙΝΗΤΙΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΕΦΑΔΡΟΞΙΛΗΣ ΣΤΟ ΜΗΤΡΙΚΟ ΓΑΛΑ. ΕΠΙΔΡΑΣΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΑΚΗ ΧΛΩΡΙΔΑ ΤΟΥΣΤΟΜΑΤΟΦΑΡΥΓΓΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΕΝΤΕΡΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΝΕΟΓΕΝΝΗΤΟ ΠΟΥ ΘΗΛΑΖΕΙ

Abstract

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CEFADROXIL IS AN ORAL CEPHALOSPORIN WITH HIGHER LIPID SOLUBILITY THAN OTHER MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP OF ANTIBIOTICS. IN A PREVIOUS STUDY IT HAS BEEN SHOWN THAT CEFADROXIL PRODUCES HIGHER ANTIBIOTIC CONCENTRATIONS IN HUMAN MILK. IN ORDER TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER THESE CONCENTRATIONS HAD ANY EFFECT ON CHANGING THE ORAL AND INTESTINAL FLORA OF BREAST-FED BABIES, THE AEROBIC BACTERIAL FLORA OF 60 NEWBORN BABIES WERE STUDIED. BABIES WERE DIVIDED IN TWO GROUPS, GROUP A CONSISTED OF 30 BREAST-FED BABIES BORN TO MOTHERS UNDER 1,0 G. OF ORAL CEFADROXIL ADMINISTERED B.I.D. FROM DAY 3 TO DAY 6 AFTER DELIVERY, WHEREAS GROUP B OF 30 BREAST-FED BABIES WERE USED AS CONTROL. AFTER THE FIRST DOSE CONCENTRATIONS OF CEFADROXIL IN BREAST-MILK WERE BACTERICIDAL TWO HOURS AFTER ADMINISTRATION, RANGING FROM 0,5 MG/ML TO 2,4 MG/ML AT 6 HOURS. THEY REMAINED BACTERICIDAL FOR THE WHOLE 8HOUR PERIOD AFTER THE LAST DOSE, RANGING FROM 1,2 MG/ML TO 4,4 MG/ML AT 6 HOURS. BACTERIAL CULTURES WERE TAKEN FROM EACH BABY ON THE THIRD AND SIXTH DAY OF LIFE. NEISSERIA CATARRHALIS WAS THE PREDOMINANT ORAL FLORA IN MOST OF THE NEWBORNS AT 3RD DAY OF LIFE, WHILE STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS WAS THE PREDOMINANT AT DAY 6 OF LIFE. STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE WAS THE ONLY ORGANISM REDUCED IN MOST OF THE NEWBORNS BREAST FED FROM MOTHERS UNDER CEFADROXIL TREATMENT. GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA WERE VERY RARELY FOUND AMONG THE ISOLATES OF THE ORAL FLORA WHEREAS E. COLI WAS PREDOMINANT IN THE INTESTINAL FLORA. CHANGES OF THE AEROBIC BACTERIAL FLORA DID NOT DIFFER FROM THOSE OBSERVED IN THE CONTROL GROUP.

Degree

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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Year dc:date
1985

Author and committee

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  • Χειρίδης, Κωνσταντίνος

Subjects

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gre

Identifiers

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Identifier
10.12681/eadd/0401
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:10442/0401

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citation

Χειρίδης, Κωνσταντίνος. ΚΙΝΗΤΙΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΕΦΑΔΡΟΞΙΛΗΣ ΣΤΟ ΜΗΤΡΙΚΟ ΓΑΛΑ. ΕΠΙΔΡΑΣΗ ΣΤΗ ΜΙΚΡΟΒΙΑΚΗ ΧΛΩΡΙΔΑ ΤΟΥΣΤΟΜΑΤΟΦΑΡΥΓΓΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΥ ΕΝΤΕΡΟΥ ΣΤΟ ΝΕΟΓΕΝΝΗΤΟ ΠΟΥ ΘΗΛΑΖΕΙ. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/0401