Clinical Features of Bacterial Conjunctivitis in Children

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-5

  Patel, Parul B ^a   Diaz, Maria Carmen G ^a   Bennett, Jonathan E ^a   Attia, Magdy W ^a  

^a Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial conjunctivitis; conjunctivitis; eye discharge; pink eye

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE DISCHARGE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845663687     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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