The Pediatric infectious disease journal
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Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. · Nov 2004
Comment Letter Comparative StudyPredictive model for childhood meningitis.
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Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. · Oct 2004
Hospital-based case-control study of bronchiectasis in indigenous children in Central Australia.
Childhood pneumonia has been reported to be associated with the development of bronchiectasis but there are no case-control studies that have examined this. This study examined the relationship between hospital admission for episode(s) of pneumonia and the risk of radiologically proven bronchiectasis. ⋯ Although we cannot fully answer the question of why bronchiectasis is much more common in Indigenous children, we have provided strong evidence of an association between bronchiectasis and severe and recurrent pneumonia episodes in infancy and childhood.
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Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. · Sep 2004
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study Clinical TrialComparison of five-day cefdinir treatment with ten-day low dose amoxicillin/clavulanate treatment for acute otitis media.
Short course beta-lactam antibiotic therapy for acute otitis media (AOM) should improve patient adherence, but it has not been evaluated since the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine became routinely used in the United States. ⋯ For children with nonrefractory AOM, based only on clinical endpoints, 5 days of therapy with cefdinir 14 mg/kg divided twice daily was comparable overall with 10 days of therapy with low dose amoxicillin/clavulanate 45/6.4 mg/kg divided twice daily.