RT Book, Section
A1 Wallace, Robert B.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141966004
T1 Infections Spread by Close Personal Contact
T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071441988
LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141966004
RD 2024/04/25
AB Upper  respiratory  tract  infections,  mainly  common  cold  and  acute  pharyngitis,  accounted  for  10.8%  (27.5  million)  of  all  visits  to  physicians  in  the  United  States  in  1991.1  In  1–4-year-old  children,  otitis  media  is  one  of  the  most  common  reasons  for  visits  to  physicians,  and  accounted  for  an  additional  2.7  million  office  visits.1  To  diagnose  and  treat  upper  respiratory  tract  infections  and  otitis  media  costs  billions  of  dollars.  Furthermore,  the  diagnostic  criteria  for  upper  respiratory  tract  infections  are  often  subjective  and  based  on  symptoms  alone;  because  of  this,  treatment  varies  significantly  from  physician  to  physician.2