Epidemiology of Otitis Media during The First Seven Years of Life in Children in Greater Boston: A Prospective, Cohort Study

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 83-94

  Teele, David W ^a,b,c   Klein, Jerome O ^a,b,c   Rosner, Bernard ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE EAR EFFUSION; MORBIDITY; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BOSTON; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0024339586     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/160.1.83     Document Type: Article

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