Changing epidemiology of life-threatening upper airway infections: The reemergence of bacterial tracheitis

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1418-1421

  Hopkins, Amelia ^a   Lahiri, Thomas ^b   Salerno, Richard ^b   Heath, Barry ^b,c  

^a University of Colorado Denver and Children s Hospital Colorado   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FLETCHER ALLEN HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway obstruction; Croup; Epidemiology; Infection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL TRACHEITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROUP; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MICROBIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TRACHEITIS; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

CORTICOSTEROID;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROUP; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEITIS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33750092560     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0692     Document Type: Article

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