Streptococcal otitis media: From epidemiology to pathogenesis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 42-44

  Shulman, Stanford T ^a,b   Tanz, Robert R ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AUTUMN; ETHNOLOGY; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAPLOTYPE; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; MASTOIDITIS; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE EAR; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYRINGOTOMY; NOTE; OTITIS MEDIA; PATHOGENESIS; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EAR, MIDDLE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; MASTOIDITIS; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 20844448414     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430609     Document Type: Note

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