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Section 4. Antimicrobial Agents and Related Therapy

Drugs for Parasitic Infections

The following tables (4.9, 4.10, and 4.11) are reproduced from The Medical Letter. FN247 These tables provide recommendations that are likely to be consistent in many cases with those of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Committee on Infectious Diseases, as given in the disease-specific chapters in Section 3. However, because The Medical Letter recommendations are developed independently, these recommendations occasionally may differ from recommendations . . . [Go to Full Text]


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