Effect of swimming pools on antibiotic use and clinic attendance for infections in two Aboriginal communities in Western Australia

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 594-598

  Silva, Desiree T ^a   Lehmann, Deborah ^a   Tennant, Mary T ^a   Jacoby, Peter ^a   Wright, Helen ^b   Stanley, Fiona J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DRUG USE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; OTITIS MEDIA; PRESCRIPTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN INFECTION; SWIMMING POOL; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; INFECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; MORBIDITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWIMMING POOLS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 47049094326     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01800.x     Document Type: Article

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