Anaerobic infections in children

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1271-1280

  Brook, Itzhak ^a,b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal infections; Anaerobic bacteria; Children; Respiratory infection; Skin infections

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CARBENICILLIN; CARBOXYPENICILLIN; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; ERTAPENEM; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LINCOMYCIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; MEZLOCILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; SULBACTAM; TAZOBACTAM; TICARCILLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; UREIDOPENICILLIN;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BOTULISM; CELLULITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FETUS; FETUS MONITORING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE ASPOROGENOUS ROD-SHAPED BACTERIA; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INFANT; LUNG INFECTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; OMPHALITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; HUMANS; INTESTINES; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0036816433     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(02)01656-8     Document Type: Review

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