Flugmedizin · Tropenmedizin · Reisemedizin - FTR 2014; 21(03): 112
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1383453
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Weniger Rückfälle und Nebenwirkungen: Melioidose ohne Doxycyclin therapieren – Neues zur Therapie der tropischen Zeitbombe

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Publication History

Publication Date:
23 June 2014 (online)

Chetchotisakd P, Chierakul W, Chaowagul W et al. Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole versus trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole plus doxycycline as oral eradicative treatment for melioidosis (MERTH):
a multicentre, double-blind, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2014; 383: 807–814

 
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