Do Children with Uncomplicated Severe Acute Malnutrition Need Antibiotics? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Alcoba, Gabriel ^a   Kerac, Marko ^b   Breysse, Serge ^c   Salpeteur, Cécile ^c   Galetto Lacour, Annick ^a   Briend, André ^d   Gervaix, Alain ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Action Contre la Faim   (France)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFDINIR; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; PLACEBO;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; META ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SALMONELLA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNCOMPLICATED SEVERE ACUTE MALNUTRITION; UNDERWEIGHT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CEFTRIAXONE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84872249159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053184     Document Type: Article

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