Comparison of ceftriaxone and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for acute otitis media

Pediatrics

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-28

  Barnett, Elizabeth D ^a,c   Teele, David W ^a   Klein, Jerome O ^a   Cabral, Howard J ^b   Kharasch, Sigmund J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute otitis media; ceftriaxone; short course therapy

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION PAIN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STREPTOCOCCUS; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 0031003965     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.99.1.23     Document Type: Article

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