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Table 1 Type of antibiotics used for chlamydia: per prescription and per episode, in 2015

From: Partner notification and partner treatment for chlamydia: attitude and practice of general practitioners in the Netherlands; a landscape analysis

Antibiotics

Chlamydia prescriptions

N %

Chlamydia episodes

N %

Episodes with double dose N %

Episodes with repeated Ct-prescriptionsa

Azithromycin (1 g 1d)

937

86.9

802

88.9

17

2.1

93

11.6

Doxycycline (2dd 100 mg 7d)

123

11.4

106

11.8

33

31.1

20

18.9

Amoxicillin (3dd 500 mg 7d)

18

1.7

15

1.7

0

0

2

13.3

Total

1078

 

902

 

50

 

115

 
  1. aepisodes had multiple prescriptions of the same or different antibiotics (maximum 4 recorded)