Bacteriologic response to oral Cephalosporins: Are established susceptibility breakpoints appropriate in the case of acute otitis media?

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 176, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1253-1259

  Dagan, Ron ^a   Abramson, Oren ^b   Leibovitz, Eugene ^b   Greenberg, David ^b   Lang, Ruth ^b   Goshen, Sivan ^b   Yagupsky, Pablo ^b   Leiberman, Alberto ^b   Fliss, Dan M ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFACLOR; CEFUROXIME AXETIL;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; CHILD; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030775353     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514120     Document Type: Article

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