Management of bacterial infections in children with asthma

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 869-877

  Korppi, Matti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Antibiotic; Asthma; Bacterium; Child; Chlamydia; Mycoplasma; Pneumococcus; Respiratory infection; Virus; Wheezing

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; MONTELUKAST; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SALMETEROL; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; BRONCHUS HYPERREACTIVITY; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRAL RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS; WHEEZING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 70350680928     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: 17448336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ERI.09.58     Document Type: Review

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