["Audio 4": a simple and quick speech audiometry test for moderate hearing loss screening in four-year-old children].

Unlabelled: The need for repeated auditory screening throughout early childhood faces the obstacle of the lack of objective validated material.

Objectives: The goal of this two-year prospective study was to create and validate frequency-based word/picture lists appropriate for four-year-olds. Words were chosen not on the basis of the acoustic frequency of phoneme production, but on frequencies corresponding to their optimal recognition.

[Recurrent respiratory tract infections: how should we investigate and treat?].

Recurrent respiratory tract infections are a common reason for visits to primary care practitioners or hospital physicians. They are placed at the junction of several medical specialities: paediatrics, ENT, pneumology, allergology, immunology, infectiology. The great diversity of the laboratory tests requested and on the other hand the proposed treatments, are the consequences of the diversity of the patients encountered and the paucity of the evidence based-medicine studies in this setting.

[Acute mastoiditis in children: clinical and bacteriological study of 17 cases].

Objective: Acute mastoiditis (AM) represents the most frequent complication of acute otitis media (AOM) in children. In the literature, its incidence is stable but with an impressive increase in pneumococci with reduced sensitivity to penicillin (PRSP). The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of AM in the area of Tours and the prevalence of PRSP.

Amoxicillin/clavulanic acid is ineffective at preventing otitis media in children with presumed viral upper respiratory infection: a randomized, double-blind equivalence, placebo-controlled trial.

Aims: To assess the equivalence of amoxicillin/clavulanic acid and placebo in the prevention of acute otitis media in children at high risk of acute otitis media who develop upper respiratory tract infection.

Methods: This was a multicentre, equivalence, randomized, double-blind trial of two parallel groups comparing 5 days of amoxicillin/clavulanic acid 75 mg kg-1 day-1 (i.e.