Evidence behind the WHO guidelines: Hospital care for children: What is the appropriate empiric antibiotic therapy in uncomplicated urinary tract infections in children in developing countries?

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 150-152

  Wolff, Olivia ^a   Maclennan, Carolyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMPTOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34447636277     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmm030     Document Type: Review

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