Effects of antibiotic treatment in the subset of common-cold patients who have bacteria in nasopharyngeal secretions

Lancet

Volumn 347, Issue 9014, 1996, Pages 1507-1510

  Kaiser, Laurent ^a   Lew, Daniel ^a   Hirschel, Bernard ^a   Auckenthaler, Raymond ^a   Morabia, Alfredo ^a   Heald, Alison ^a   Benedict, Pierre ^a   Terrier, François ^a   Wunderli, Werner ^a   Matter, Lukas ^b   Germann, Daniel ^b   Voegeli, Jérôme ^a   Stalder, Hans ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CLAVULANIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NASOPHARYNX; NOSE SECRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9344239913     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90670-4     Document Type: Article

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