Is acute otitis media a treatable disease?

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 168-169

  Klein, Jerome O ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MYRINGOTOMY; OTOSCOPY; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; TREATMENT FAILURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 78651359290     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1009121     Document Type: Editorial

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