Research Studies

Adjunctive clindamycin for cellulitis: a clinical trial comparing flucloxacillin with or without clindamycin for the treatment of limb cellulitis: C4C

Local PI
Dr Frank Coffey
Lead Research Practitioner
Jodie Bradder

This study was a double-blind RCT to compare the treatment of limb cellulitis with flucloxacillin alone vs flucloxacillin with clindamycin. The results are out and the addition of clindamycin had no improvement on outcome, however, it doubled the patients likelihood of diarrhoea. 

The open article to this trial is available here