Acute otitis media is not a pure bacterial disease

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1423-1425

  Chonmaitree, Tasnee ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; HUMANS; OTITIS MEDIA; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 33751575815     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509329     Document Type: Note

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