Antibiotics for preventing suppurative complications from undifferentiated acute respiratory infections in children under five years of age

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Alves Galvão, Márcia G ^a   Rocha Crispino Santos, Marilene Augusta ^a   Alves da Cunha, Antonio J L ^b  

^a Municipal Health Secretariat   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PLACEBO; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHILD; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HIGH INCOME COUNTRY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OTITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SUPPURATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE DISEASE; META ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AMOXICILLIN-POTASSIUM CLAVULANATE COMBINATION; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; OTITIS; PNEUMONIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SUPPURATION;

EID: 84907610191     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007880.pub2     Document Type: Review

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