Five-day cefdinir treatment for streptococcal pharyngitis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1073-1075

  Tack, Kenneth J ^a   Henry, Daniel C ^b   Manford Gooch, W ^c   Brink, Douglas N ^a   Keyserling, Constange H ^a   Adelglass, Jeffrey M ^d   Black, Ross ^d   Cochran, Bert ^d   Collins, Harry ^d   Downing, Jill ^d   Drehobl, Margaret ^d   Elinoff, Victor ^d   Gooch, W Manford ^d   Gore, Randall ^d   Hedrick, James ^d   Kirkegaard, Lance ^d   Littlejohn, Thomas W ^d   Mazzone, Frank ^d   McCarty, James ^d   McCluskey, Dennis ^d   Ondrejicka, John ^d   Pastor, R Zorba ^d   Puopolo, Anthony D ^d   Roberts, Sam ^d   Smucker, Jerry D ^d   Sperling, Malcolm J ^d   Wiederhold, Sandra ^d   more..

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b Foothill Family Clinic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Division of Warner Lambert Company ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFDINIR; PENICILLIN V;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROAT CULTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7144242321     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.5.1073     Document Type: Article

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