Antibiotic treatment in acute otitis media: 'In vivo' demonstration of antibacterial activity

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1997, Pages

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

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antibiotic treatment; Bacteriology; Otitis media

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASPIRATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAR; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0030852953     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1198-743x(14)64952-1     Document Type: Review

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