Current challenges in lower respiratory infections in children

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-112

  Klig, Jean E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bronchiolitis; Lower respiratory infection; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; HELIUM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MUCOLYTIC AGENT; OXYGEN; PALIVIZUMAB; RIBAVIRIN; SALBUTAMOL; SURFACTANT; THEOPHYLLINE;

ASTHMA; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG COST; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EPIDEMIC; FOLLOW UP; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS; IMMUNIZATION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; REVIEW; SARS CORONAVIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SIDE EFFECT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0842308672     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-200402000-00019     Document Type: Review

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