Chronic bronchitis: Common and controversial

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 227-231

  Gump, Dieter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFIXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MACROLIDE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE; THYMOPENTIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; META ANALYSIS; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0029951921     PISSN: 10569103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019048-199605000-00003     Document Type: Short Survey

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