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Section 4. Antimicrobial Agents and Related Therapy

DRUGS FOR PARASITIC INFECTIONS

The following tables (4.10 and 4.11) are reproduced from The Medical Letter. 1 These tables provide recommendations that are likely to be consistent in many cases with those of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, as given in the disease-specific chapters in Section 3. However, because The Medical Letter recommendations are developed independently, these . . . [Go to Full Text]

 
 

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