Antibiotic use for respiratory syncytial virus in the Middle East: A surveillance study in hospitalized Jordanian children

In developing countries where point-of-care testing is limited, providers rely on clinical judgement to discriminate between viral and bacterial respiratory infections. We performed a cross-sectional cohort study of hospitalized Jordanian children to evaluate antibiotic use for respiratory syncytial...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 16; no. 11; p. e0260473
Main Authors:	Rankin, Danielle A., Khankari, Nikhil K., Haddadin, Zaid, Hamdan, Olla, Yanis, Ahmad, Faouri, Samir, Shehabi, Asem, Williams, John V., Khuri-Bulos, Najwa, Halasa, Natasha B.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 29.11.2021 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Ambulatory care Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Antibiotics Bacteria Bacterial infections Biology and Life Sciences Child Child, Hospitalized Child, Preschool Children Cross-Sectional Studies Developing countries Diagnosis Diagnostic tests Drug therapy Female Fever Guardians Hospital care Hospitalization Hospitals Humans Infant Infections Influenza Jordan - epidemiology Laboratories LDCs Male Males Medical records Medicine and Health Sciences Methods Parent educational background Pediatric research Pediatrics People and Places Pneumonia Prevalence Respiratory syncytial virus Respiratory syncytial virus infection Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections - drug therapy Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections - epidemiology Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Human - drug effects Sensitivity Sepsis Sex Statistical analysis Viral infections Viruses Jordan Middle East Pittsburgh Pennsylvania United States > US Tennessee Nashville Tennessee
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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