Rescue Therapy Using a Rifabutin-Based Regimen is Effective for Cure of Helicobacter pylori Infection

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of rescue therapy using rifabutin, amoxicillin and a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) in the eradication of Helicobacter pylori in patients who have failed at least one course of PPI-based triple therapy.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Snehal Desai, Linda Best, Geraldine Cooper-Lesins, Dickran Malatjalian, David Haldane, Kevork Peltekian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/637908