Pediatric neck abscesses - Changing organisms and empiric therapies

Laryngoscope

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2111-2114

  Inman, Jared C ^a   Rowe, Mark ^a,b   Ghostine, Michelle ^a   Fleck, Terry ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Methicillin resistant S. aureus; MRSA; Pediatric neck abscess; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MICROORGANISM; NECK; PEDIATRICS; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EAR NOSE THROAT DISEASE; EMPIRICISM; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRAINAGE; EMPIRICISM; ERYTHROMYCIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 58149340872     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e318182a4fb     Document Type: Article

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