Does 3-day course of oral amoxycillin benefit children of non-severe pneumonia with wheeze: a multicentric randomised controlled trial.

Does 3-day course of oral amoxycillin benefit children of non-severe pneumonia with wheeze: a multicentric randomised controlled trial.

WHO-defined pneumonias, treated with antibiotics, are responsible for a significant proportion of childhood morbidity and mortality in the developing countries. Since substantial proportion pneumonias have a viral etiology, where children are more likely to present with wheeze, there is a concern th...

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Main Authors: Shally Awasthi, Girdhar Agarwal, Sushil K Kabra, Sunit Singhi, Madhuri Kulkarni, Vaishali More, Abhimanyu Niswade, Raj Mohan Pillai, Ravi Luke, Neeraj M Srivastava, Saradha Suresh, Valsan P Verghese, P Raghupathy, R Lodha, Stephen D Walter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2292255?pdf=render

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