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Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1990Although lower respiratory tract infections are frequently diagnosed in a primary care setting, they are still associated with a significant morbidity and mortality, which warrants a careful approach to treatment. Knowledge of the most common cause based on the age of the patient, location where the infection was acquired, and clinical presentation ...
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Prevention of respiratory tract infection
The American Journal of Medicine, 1984Bacterial infection of the lower respiratory tract is initiated by colonization of the upper respiratory tract followed by aspiration of small volumes of contaminated secretions into the lungs. Failure of lung antibacterial defenses results in pneumonia.
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Upper respiratory tract infections
The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1969Upper respiratory tract infections are widespread and arc the commonest cause of morbidity in children. Gulati (1965) found that they were responsible for 31.4% of morbidity in children in a semi-urban area in Delhi while Verma and Kumar (1968) reported an incidence of 26.6% among children attcnding a primary health centre.
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Telithromycin in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
Future Microbiology, 2006Telithromycin is a ketolide, a semisynthetic derivative of the 14-membered ring macrolide antibiotics, with an expanded spectrum of activity relative to macrolides. Its good tissue pharmacokinetic characteristics allows once-daily administration, and it has been successfully employed in lower respiratory tract infections.
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Principles of Judicious Antibiotic Prescribing for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Pediatrics
Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines & Policies, 2014Most upper respiratory tract infections are caused by viruses and require no antibiotics. This clinical report focuses on antibiotic prescribing strategies for bacterial upper respiratory tract infections, including acute otitis media, acute bacterial ...
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Neonatal respiratory tract infections
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, 1993Neonatal respiratory tract infections, in particular pneumonia, can be life-threatening. Lower respiratory tract infections may be acquired before, during, or after birth. Upper respiratory tract infections include otitis, sinusitis, rhinitis, laryngitis, tracheitis and bronchitis.
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Upper Respiratory Tract Infections
Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 1990Upper respiratory tract infections are among the most common acute infections in humans. This review discusses the clinically important aspects of the epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, management, complications, and prevention of the common cold, pharyngitis, otitis media, and sinusitis.
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Erythromycin in Respiratory Tract Infection
Scottish Medical Journal, 1977One of the main uses of erythromycin in respiratory tract infection has been in the treatment of acute streptococcal tonsillitis as an alternative to penicillin. Studies on the quantitative bacteriology of tonsils obtained at tonsillectomy have shown large numbers of both haemolytic streptococci and Haemophilus species in most samples and these ...
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Moxifloxacin in respiratory tract infections
Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, 2005Moxifloxacin is a fourth-generation fluoroquinolone that has been shown to be effective against respiratory pathogens, including Gram-positive (Streptococcus pneumoniae), Gram-negative (Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis), and atypical strains (Chlamydia pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae), as well as multi-drug resistant S.
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Antibiotic resistance in the patient with cancer: Escalating challenges and paths forward
Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021Amila K Nanayakkara +2 more
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