High rate of nasopharyngeal carriage of potential pathogens among children in Greenland: Results of a clinical survey of middle-ear disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1081-1090

  Homøe, Preben ^a   Prag, Jørgen ^b   Farholt, Stense ^b   Henrichsen, Jørgen ^b   Hornsleth, Allan ^b   Kilian, Mogens ^b   Jensen, Jørgen Skov ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN V; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILD; CHLAMYDIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; GREENLAND; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; RHINOVIRUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROAT CULTURE; VIRUS DETECTION;

EID: 0029914138     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/23.5.1081     Document Type: Article

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