'Recurrent lower respiratory tract infections' - going around in circles, respiratory medicine style

Paediatric Respiratory Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 139-143

  Everard, Mark L ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Chest infections'; Biofilms; Persistent bacterial bronchitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BECLOMETASONE; CORTICOSTEROID;

ASTHMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOFILM; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CHEST INFECTION; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT ALLERGY; REVIEW; WHEEZING;

ASTHMA; BIOFILMS; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHOCONSTRICTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; PULMONARY MEDICINE; RECURRENCE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84862663521     PISSN: 15260542     EISSN: 15260550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prrv.2012.03.003     Document Type: Review

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