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Common Cold in Children

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Upper respiratory tract infection (URI) represents the most common acute illness evaluated in the outpatient setting. URIs range from the common cold—typically a mild, self-limited, catarrhal syndrome of the nasopharynx—to life-threatening illnesses such as epiglottitis (1).

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  1. Section of Otorhinolaryngology, Elazığ Fethi Sekin City Hospital, Elazığ, Turkey

    Nihat Susaman

  2. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Kırıkkale University, Kırıkkale, Turkey

    Nuray Bayar Muluk

  3. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital Centre “Mother Teresa”, Tirana, Albania

    Suela Sallavaci

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  2. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey

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Susaman, N., Bayar Muluk, N., Sallavaci, S. (2022). Common Cold in Children. In: Cingi, C., Arısoy, E.S., Bayar Muluk, N. (eds) Pediatric ENT Infections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80691-0_36

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