Fusidic acid plus betamethasone in infected or potentially infected eczema

Hjorth, N.; Schmidt, H.; Thomsen, K.

Pharmatherapeutica 4(2): 126-131

1985


ISSN/ISBN: 0308-051X
PMID: 3903779
Document Number: 433
Eighty-one patients with atopic dermatitis and contact dermatitis received a 1-week treatment with 0.1% betamethasone alone on one side and 0.1% betamethasone plus 2% fusidic acid on the other side. Clinically, the combination was marginally superior and in patient preference a significant difference in favour of the combination was recorded. Bacteriologically, the combination eliminated 67% of bacteria originally present in the skin lesions compared with 51% with steroid alone.

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Fusidic acid plus betamethasone in infected or potentially infected eczema