Are oral antibiotics as efficacious as intravenous antibiotics for the treatment of community acquired pneumonia?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-104

  Wilder, R A ^a  

^a LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COUGHING; FEVER; HUMAN; NOTE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; TREATMENT FAILURE; X RAY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REVIEW;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 78650846544     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.205047     Document Type: Note

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