Why don't those ear drops work for my patients?

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1252-1253

  Isaacson, Glenn ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CIPRODEX; CIPROFLOXACIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FLOXIN OTIC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HUMAN; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NOTE; OTITIS MEDIA; OTORRHEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; INFANT; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; OTITIS MEDIA, SUPPURATIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33749053218     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0826     Document Type: Note

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