Antibiotic prescribing practice in management of cough and/or diarrhoea in moshi municipality, northern tanzania: Cross-sectional descriptive study

Pan African Medical Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gwimile, Judith John ^a   Shekalaghe, Seif Abdallah ^b   Kapanda, Gibson Nsokolo ^a   Kisanga, Elton Richard ^a  

^a KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Antibiotic prescribing; Antibiotics use; Cough; Diarrhea; Irrational prescribing; Pneumonia; Under five

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AMPICILLIN PLUS CLOXACILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTITUSSIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFIXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; INFUSION FLUID; MACROLIDE; MEBENDAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; ORAL REHYDRATION SOLUTION; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; SULFONAMIDE; ZINC;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ACUTE WATERY DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIARRHEA; DYSENTERY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; TANZANIA;

EID: 84871489888     PISSN: 19378688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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