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Recommendations

≥ 18 years
Dosage Remarks
azithromycin oral 500 mg once daily for 3 days

SWAB remarks

Community-acquired diarrhoea and diarrhoea in travellers returning to the Netherlands

erythromycin IV 500 mg four times daily for 5 days

+

ceftriaxone IV 2000 mg once daily for 5 days

SWAB remarks

Community-acquired diarrhoea and diarrhoea in travellers returning to the Netherlands; if IV treatment is required

ciprofloxacin oral 500 mg single dose

or

azithromycin oral 500 mg single dose

SWAB remarks

Travellers during travel

azithromycin oral 500 mg single dose

SWAB remarks

Travellers during travel, Asia

Comments

Antibiotic therapy ONLY in cases of persistent or high fever, dysentery, patients with endovascular prosthetic material, and immunocompromised patients.

If an intravenous treatment is switched to an oral treatment within the 5-day treatment period, we recommend providing an additional full oral course of azithromycin.