Changes in Antibiotic‐Prescribing Practices and Carriage of Penicillin‐ResistantStreptococcus pneumoniae:A Controlled Intervention Trial in Rural Alaska
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- 15 June 2002
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 34 (12), 1543-1550
- https://doi.org/10.1086/340534
Abstract
From 1998 to 2000, 13 rural Alaskan villages (population, 3326) were surveyed annually by nasopharyngeal cultures for Streptococcus pneumoniae carriaKeywords
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