Streamlining antimicrobial therapy for lower respiratory tract infections

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1997, Pages

  Hitt, Catherine M ^a   Nightingale, Charles H ^a   Quintiliani, Richard ^a   Nicolau, David P ^a  

^a HARTFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; COST CONTROL; DRUG EFFICACY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030895121     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.supplement_2.s231     Document Type: Review

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