Treatment with ciprofloxacin in children with typhoid fever

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 355-357

  Thomsen, Lise Lykke ^a,b   Paerregaard, Anders ^b  

^a University Clinics of Paediatrics   (Denmark)

^b H:S Hvidovre Hospitals ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; DENMARK; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERANCE; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SALMONELLOSIS; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PARATYPHOID FEVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALMONELLA PARATYPHI A; SALMONELLA TYPHI; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TYPHOID FEVER;

EID: 0031793794     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365549850160639     Document Type: Article

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