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1149. Reducing Piperacillin/Tazobactam Use in Children with Acute Perforated Appendicitis

BACKGROUND: Children with perforated appendicitis have more frequent complications compared with nonperforated appendicitis. Existing data suggest broad-spectrum antibiotics are not superior to narrow-spectrum antibiotics for this condition. In an effort to safely decrease broad-spectrum antibiotic...

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Published in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Main Authors: Seddik, Talal B, Bio, Laura, Bassett, Hannah, Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Despina, Qureshi, Lubna, Schwenk, Hayden
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6809157/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1013
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