ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED DIARRHEA AND ANTIBIOTIC-ASSOCIATED COLITIS
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Antibiotic associated diarrhea in children.
CONTEXT Keeping in view the recent flooding of the Indian market with antibiotic and probiotic combinations, we decided to look at the prevalence of antibiotic associated diarrhea (AAD) and Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in children and reviewed evidence available for use of probiotics in the prevention of AAD. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION We did a PubMed, Medline and Cochrane libary search fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Almanac of Clinical Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2072-0505
DOI: 10.18786/2072-0505-2014-33-39-46