The role of anaerobic bacteria in upper respiratory tract and other head and neck infections

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 208-217

  Brook, Itzhak ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; KETOLIDE; LINCOMYCIN; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; MEZLOCILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TICARCILLIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; UREIDOPENICILLIN;

ABSCESS; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APLASTIC ANEMIA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BONE DISEASE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CHONDROPATHY; CHRONIC OTITIS MEDIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLITIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOPENIA; LYMPHADENITIS; MONOTHERAPY; MOUTH INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PAROTITIS; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; TONSILLITIS; TOOTH DISEASE; TOOTH INFECTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 34248345497     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-007-0033-0     Document Type: Review

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