Of these children, 342 had received 1,678 antibiotic courses, and 218 received no antibiotic courses. The predominant antibiotics prescribed were amoxicillin, amoxicillin-clavulanate, cefdinir, and ...

Trehan and colleagues (2013) performed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Malawi, assigning 2767 children with severe acute malnutrition to receive amoxicillin, cefdinir ...