Dynamics of nasopharyngitis in children

Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 696-700

  Brook, Itzhak ^a   Gober, Alan E ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; RHINITIS; RHINOPHARYNGITIS;

ANTIBIOSIS; BACTERIA; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NASOPHARYNGITIS; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE; SUPPURATION;

EID: 0034072381     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(00)70199-9     Document Type: Article

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