Antibiotics for preschool wheeze

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 2-3

  Grigg, Jonathan ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRUS REPLICATION; WHEEZING; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ASTHMA; INFANT;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; HUMANS; INFANT; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

EID: 84952880530     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: 22132619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(15)00520-2     Document Type: Note

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