Macrolides: Clarithromycin and azithromycin

Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-30

  Sood, S K ^a  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; HUMAN; MAXILLA SINUSITIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERTUSSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA; SKIN INFECTION;

EID: 0033002591     PISSN: 10451870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1045-1870(99)80006-5     Document Type: Article

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