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Editorial
. 2021 Sep;17(3):210056.
doi: 10.1183/20734735.0056-2021.

Macrolides (alone or in combination) should be used as first-line empirical therapy of community-acquired pneumonia in children: myth or maxim?

Adilia Warris  1
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Editorial

Macrolides (alone or in combination) should be used as first-line empirical therapy of community-acquired pneumonia in children: myth or maxim?

Adilia Warris. Breathe (Sheff). 2021 Sep.

Abstract

Macrolides should not be used as first-line therapy for community-acquired pneumonia in children as no clinical benefit is shown and widespread use is associated with an emerging increase in macrolide resistance amongst S. pneumoniae and M. pneumoniae https://bit.ly/3yQuedF.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: A. Warris reports personal fees from Mundipharma (consulting fees) and Gilead (payment for lectures, presentations, speaker bureaus, manuscript writing or educational events), outside the submitted work.

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