Incidence of acute otitis media in children below 6 years of age seen in medical practices in five East European countries

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Usonis, Vytautas ^a   Jackowska, Teresa ^b,c   Petraitiene, Sigita ^a   Sapala, Alicja ^c   Neculau, Andrea ^d   Stryjewska, Izabella ^e   Devadiga, Raghavendra ^f   Tafalla, Monica ^g   Holl, Katsiaryna ^g  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b MEDICAL CENTER FOR POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION   (Poland)

^c BIELANSKI HOSPITAL   (Poland)

^d TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^f GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd   (India)

^g GSK   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acute otitis media; Children; Eastern Europe

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ABSENTEEISM; ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAY CARE; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROMANIA; SLOVENIA; ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EASTERN EUROPE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; OTITIS MEDIA; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OTITIS MEDIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84979223212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12887-016-0638-2     Document Type: Article

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