Drugs for Parasitic Infections

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Section 4. Antimicrobial Agents and Related Therapy

DRUGS FOR PARASITIC INFECTIONS

The following tables (4.13 and 4.14) are reproduced from TheMedical Letter. ¹These tables provide recommendations that arelikely to be consistent in many cases with those of the Committeeon Infectious Diseases, as given in the disease-specific chaptersin Section 3. However, because . . . [Go to Full Text]

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