Trovan

The Kano state suit alleges that Pfizer administered an untested drug called Trovan Floxacin without authorisation on almost 200 children infected with meningitis in the state.

06/05/2007 2007

Pfizer says it brought the drug - an antibiotic called Trovan - to

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

Both governments accuse Pfizer of administering a test antibiotic called Trovan without authorisation or parental consent among children at a field hospital during an epidemic of meningitis, measles and cholera.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

On June 4, Nigeria filed a lawsuit against Pfizer for administering a test antibiotic called Trovan without authorisation or parental consent among children at a field hospital in the heart of the epidemic in Kano.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

A hundred children were given an experimental oral antibiotic called Trovan, while a further hundred received ceftriaxone, the "gold-standard" treatment of modern medicine.

The Guardian World News David Smith 2011

They had come to conduct a trial of an oral antibiotic called Trovan, which they wanted to test in children with meningitis against the "gold-standard" treatment of the western world, ceftriaxone.

The Guardian World News Sarah Boseley 2010

Pfizer was sued in Nigeria after reports emerged that it had tested an experimental antibiotic called Trovan on 100 children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic.

NYT > Home Page By DUFF WILSON 2010

Pfizer was sued in Nigeria after reports emerged that it had tested an experimental antibiotic called Trovan on 100 children during a 1996 meningitis epidemic.

NYT > Home Page By DUFF WILSON 2010

Two-hundred children were tested with an antibiotic called Trovan, which was supposed to treat meningitis.

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Two-hundred children were tested with an antibiotic called Trovan, which was supposed to treat meningitis.

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