OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which antibiotics reduce the risk of serious complications after common respiratory tract infections. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING UK primary care practices contributing to the general practice research database. DATA SOURCE 3.36 million episodes of respiratory tract infection. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Risk of serious complications in trea...

Experts of the Union Pediatricians Russia have developed modern guidelines on management children with acute respiratory viral infection. The term “acute infection” (ARVI) combines following nosological forms: nasopharyngitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis, tracheitis, laryngopharyngitis, upper respiration tract infection (unspecified). issues epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention been c...

background and objectives: feline herpesvirus-1, feline calicivirus and chlamydophila felis are the main causes of feline upper respiratory tract disease. this study was conducted to identify of fehv-1, fcv and c. felis infections in domestic cat population and also to estimate the prevalence of each specific infection in iran. materials and methods: the ocular conjunctiva and oropharyngeal spe...

The use of antibiotics to treat infection can be miraculously beneficial or foolish and wasteful. Antibiotics save lives when used to treat endocarditis, meningitis and pneumonia, and restore health and prevent complications in many other infections (Figure 1). However, antibiotics provide no benefit for the common cold and in some other common respiratory tract infections their risk of adverse...

parapharyngeal abscess is a life-threatening disease. upper respiratory tract infection is the main cause in children. we present a 15-month-old boy admitted to the emergency ward with the chief complaint of difficulty in breathing caused by parapharyngealabscess. his condition deteriorated gradually, and he transferred to the operation theater quickly for abscess drainage and because of the di...