Antibiotic treatment of diarrhoea is associated with decreased time to the next diarrhoea episode among young children in Vellore, India

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 978-987

  Rogawski, Elizabeth T ^a   Westreich, Daniel J ^a   Becker Dreps, Sylvia ^b   Adair, Linda S ^a   Sandler, Robert S ^a,b   Sarkar, Rajiv ^c   Kattula, Deepthi ^c   Ward, Honorine D ^c,d   Meshnick, Steven R ^a   Kang, Gagandeep ^c  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^d TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Diarrhoea; India; Inverse probability weighting; Kaplan Meier survival curves; Time differences

Indexed keywords

CEFIXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGE CLASS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASE TREATMENT; MICROBIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL; YOUNG POPULATION;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SOCIAL STATUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME TO TREATMENT;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU; VELLORE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFIXIME; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TRIMETHOPRIM, SULFAMETHOXAZOLE DRUG COMBINATION;

EID: 84939618439     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv040     Document Type: Article

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