Antibiotics for the common cold and acute purulent rhinitis

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Kenealy, Tim ^a   Arroll, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEMECLOCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; NITROFURAL; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN V; PHENYLEPHRINE; PLACEBO; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE PLUS TRIPROLIDINE; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XIBORNOL; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSENTEEISM; ACUTE PURULENT RHINITIS; BRONCHITIS; COMMON COLD; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; LOSS OF APPETITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; REVIEW; RHINITIS; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SMOKING; SNEEZING; SORE THROAT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROAT CULTURE; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VOMITING; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHILD; META ANALYSIS; SUPPURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; COMMON COLD; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RHINITIS; SUPPURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84891674279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD000247.pub3     Document Type: Review

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