Weekly oral azithromycin as prophylaxis for agents causing acute respiratory disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 103-110

  Gray, Gregory C ^c   McPhate, Dennis C ^d   Leinonen, Maija ^d   Cassell, Gail H ^d   Deperalta, Eduardo P ^d   Putnam, Shannon D ^a   Karcher, Jennifer A ^b   Sawyer, Mark H ^d   Laurila, Aino ^d   Connor, James D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G SODIUM;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 17344373355     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/516275     Document Type: Article

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