Macrolide Therapy for Prevention of Exacerbation in Individuals with Diffuse Aspiration Bronchiolitis

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 665-666

  Miyashita, Naoyuki ^a   Kawai, Yasuhiro ^a   Kato, Tadashi ^a   Tanaka, Takaaki ^a   Akaike, Hiroto ^a   Teranishi, Hideto ^a   Nakano, Takashi ^a   Ouchi, Kazunobu ^a   Okimoto, Niro ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AUTOPSY; BRONCHIOLITIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE ASPIRATION BRONCHIOLITIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE COURSE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; BRONCHIOLITIS; CLARITHROMYCIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACROLIDES; MALE; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION;

EID: 84961789666     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.13986     Document Type: Letter

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