Prophylactic antibiotic treatment of bronchiectasis with azithromycin [5]

Thorax

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 540-541

  Davies, G ^a   Wilson, R ^a  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRONCHIECTASIS; CILIARY DYSKINESIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG ERUPTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SPUTUM CULTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; TINNITUS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; ADOLESCENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AZITHROMYCIN; BRONCHIECTASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 2942650873     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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