Once again about the term "viral-bacterial infection"

А. S. Polyakova, V. K. Tatochenko
2015 Medical Council  
Most pediatricians would agree that the most common complaint of patients and their parents are fever, runny nose and/or sore throat. Each year, doctors examine about 40% of children under 6 months and over 60% of children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years only because of fever, which in most cases is a manifestation of self-limiting acute respiratory infection (ARI). [1] At the same time, the challenge for physician is, on the one hand, not to miss a serious bacterial disease, and on
more » ... other, not to prescribe an unnecessary test or medicine.
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