Antibiotic prescriptions and laboratory-confirmed cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae during the epidemic in Sweden in 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Linde, A ^a   Ternhag, A ^a   Torner A ^a   Claesson, B E ^b  

^a Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control   (Sweden)

^b Unilabs   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN V;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BORDETELLA PARAPERTUSSIS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; COUGHING; EPIDEMIC; GENE TARGETING; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIA; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 84857002524     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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