Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Children
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Acute Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Children.
Acute lower respiratory tract infection (ALRTI) is a common illness, but there have been relatively few studies of the bacterial etiology in developing countries. Nasopharyngeal aspirates of 70 children under 10 years of age with ALRTI were cultured for aerobic bacterial pathogens. Klebsiella pneumoniae was the commonest organism (32.2%) isolated followed by S. pneumoniae (10%), E. coli (10%), ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Pediatric Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2147-9445
DOI: 10.4274/jpr.65365