Antimicrobial susceptibility of nasopharyngeal isolates of potential pathogens recovered from infants before antibiotic therapy: Implications for the management of otitis media

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 607-612

  Faden, Howard ^a   Doern, Gary ^b   Wolf, Judy ^a   Blocker, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Moraxella catarrhalis; Nontypable haemophilus influenzae; Otitis media; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFACLOR; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028337082     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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