Effects of active and passive smoking on ear infections

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-174

  Yilmaz, Gonca ^a   Caylan, Nilgun Demirli ^a   Karacan, Can Demir ^a  

^a Children's Health and Diseases   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Active smoking; Ear infections; Otitis media; Passive smoking; Second hand smoke exposure; Smoke; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

COTININE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

ACTIVE SMOKING; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MATERNAL SMOKING; NONHUMAN; OTITIS MEDIA; PASSIVE SMOKING; PATERNAL SMOKING; PATHOGENESIS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM; SOCIAL HYGIENE;

EID: 84862887461     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: 15343146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-012-0239-7     Document Type: Article

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