The antibiotic treatment of acute otitis media and sinusitis in children

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 35-39

  Cohen, Robert ^a,b  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER INTERCOMMUNAL DE CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; LACTAM; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEWBORN; OTITIS MEDIA; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LACTAMS; MACROLIDES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030632271     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0732-8893(97)00021-7     Document Type: Article

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