Conservative wait-and-see therapy versus antibiotic treatment for nontuberculous mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis in children

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 180-184

  Lindeboom, Jerome A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; RIFABUTIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALING; HUMAN; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIAL CERVICOFACIAL LYMPHADENITIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TOOTH DISCOLORATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; NECK; RIFABUTIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951843642     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciq070     Document Type: Article

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