Read the clindamycin Results-at-a-Glance summary.

Clindamycin is an antibiotic medicine that is often given to children to treat infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Despite its common use in children, there is little information on the pharmacokinetics, how the drug is processed, of clindamycin in pediatric groups. These studies were needed to learn the safest, most effective dosage of clindamycin in children ranging in age from premature infants to adolescents.