Wheeze in preschool age is associated with pulmonary bacterial infection and resolves after antibiotic therapy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Schwerk, Nicolaus ^a   Brinkmann, Folke ^a   Soudah, Bisharah ^a   Kabesch, Michael ^a   Hansen, Gesine ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CEFUROXIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; STEROID; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEUTROPHILIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT DURATION; WHEEZING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTES; HUMANS; MALE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 82255173857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027913     Document Type: Article

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