Patterns of antibiotic use in the community in Denmark

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 597-603

  Muscat, Mark ^a   Monnet, Dominique ^a   Klemmensen, Thomas ^a   Grigoryan, Larissa ^b   Hummelshøj Jensen, Maria ^a   Andersen, Morten ^c   Haaijer Ruskamp, Flora ^b  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DICLOXACILLIN; FUSIDIC ACID; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; NITROFURAN DERIVATIVE; NITROFURANTOIN; NON PRESCRIPTION DRUG; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; PIVMECILLINAM; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SHORT ACTING DRUG; SULFAMETHIZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; COMMUNITY; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DENMARK; DIARRHEA; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; EAR INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEVER; GINGIVA DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LEGAL ASPECT; PNEUMONIA; POSTAL MAIL; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RHINORRHEA; SELF MEDICATION; SINUSITIS; SORE THROAT; TOOTH INFECTION; TOOTH PAIN; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF MEDICATION;

EID: 33746608071     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600606507     Document Type: Article

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