Open AccessAntibiotics for Childhood Pneumonia — Do We Really Know How Long to Treat?
Author(s) -
Anne B. Chang,
Keith Grimwood
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejme2016328
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumonia , amoxicillin , antibiotics , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , aspiration pneumonia , anesthesia , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends 3 days of oral amoxicillin (80 mg per kilogram of body weight per day) in children younger than 5 years of age who have fast-breathing pneumonia (coug...
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