Antibiotics for preventing complications in children with measles

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2013, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kabra, Sushil K ^a   Lodha, Rakesh ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG SAFETY; EFFECT SIZE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEASLES; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TONSILLITIS; CHILD; COMPLICATION; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; CROUP; META ANALYSIS; OTITIS MEDIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); CONJUNCTIVITIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; CROUP; DIARRHEA; HUMANS; MEASLES; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 84893090093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001477.pub4     Document Type: Review

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