Optimal duration of therapy combining ranitidine bismuth citrate with clarithromycin and metronidazole in the eradication of <i>Helicobacter pylori</i> infection

Abstract

Reducing the duration of RBC-based triple therapy to 4 days provides a low and unacceptable rate of H. pylori eradication. As there is no difference between 7 and 10 days of treatment, 1 week represents the optimal time period for this kind of treatment, based on RBC plus two antibiotics.