Inappropriate use of antibiotics in children in China

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10025, 2016, Pages 1273-1274

  Quan Cheng, Kan ^a   Jian Guo, Wen ^a   Xiang Hua, Liu ^b   Zhen Zhen, Li ^a  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHINA; COLITIS; FATALITY; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LETTER; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF MEDICATION; CHILD; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHINA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING;

EID: 84962249511     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30019-8     Document Type: Letter

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