Acute otitis media: antibiotics are moderately effective and mildly increase the risk of adverse effects; prevalence of different causative bacteria changed after introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
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Acute otitis media: antibiotics are moderately effective and mildly increase the risk of adverse effects; prevalence of different causative bacteria changed after introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
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Diagnosis, microbial epidemiology, and antibiotic treatment of acute otitis media in children: a systematic review.JAMA. 2010 Nov 17;304(19):2161-9. doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.1651. JAMA. 2010. PMID: 21081729
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