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A double blind community-based randomized trial of amoxicillin versus placebo for fast breathing pneumonia in children aged 2-59 months in Karachi, Pakistan (RETAPP)

BACKGROUND: Fast breathing pneumonia is characterized by tachypnoea in the absence of danger signs and is mostly viral in etiology. Current guidelines recommend antibiotic therapy for all children with fast breathing pneumonia in resource limited settings, presuming that most pneumonia is bacterial....

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Autores principales: Jehan, Fyezah, Nisar, Muhammad Imran, Kerai, Salima, Brown, Nick, Balouch, Benazir, Hyder, Zulfiqar, Ambler, Gwen, Ginsburg, Amy Sarah, Zaidi, Anita K. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26758747
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-015-1334-9