Community-based treatment of serious bacterial infections in newborns and young infants: A randomized controlled trial assessing three antibiotic regimens

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 667-672

  Zaidi, Anita K M ^a   Tikmani, Shiyam Sundar ^a   Warraich, Haider J ^a   Darmstadt, Gary L ^b   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^a   Sultana, Shazia ^a   Thaver, Durrane ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic therapy; Bacterial infections; Community based; Cotrimoxazole; Developing countries; Gentamicin; Neonatal mortality; Neonatal sepsis; Newborns; Procaine penicillin; Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole; Young infants

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; PROCAINE PENICILLIN;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CEFTRIAXONE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PENICILLINS; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 84862769079     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318256f86c     Document Type: Article

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