Impetigo: Current Etiology and Comparison of Penicillin, Erythromycin, and Cephalexin Therapies

American Journal of Diseases of Children

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 1990, Pages 1313-1315

  Demidovich, Carl W ^a   Wittier, Robert R ^a   Ruff, Michael E ^a   Bass, James W ^a   Browning, William C ^a  

^a TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN ESTOLATE; PENICILLIN V POTASSIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; IMPETIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; CEPHALEXIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPETIGO; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PENICILLINS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0025690296     PISSN: 0002922X     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1990.02150360037015     Document Type: Article

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