Acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in pediatric medicine: Current issues in diagnosis and management

Pediatric Drugs

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages 25-33

  Anon, Jack B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFDINIR; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0042834146     PISSN: 11745878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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