Treatment of acute otitis media in children: Some unanswered questions;Tratamiento de la otitis media aguda en ninos. Algunos interrogantes

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 212-217

  Del Castillo Martín, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFDINIR; CEFIXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFPROZIL; CEFUROXIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; LORACARBEF; SULBACTAM;

CHILD; HUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; REVIEW;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLAVULANIC ACIDS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MASTOIDITIS; OTITIS MEDIA;

EID: 0030941289     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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