Reply to "decrease in penicillin sales in Brazil after over-the-counter restrictions".
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Yared Santa-Ana-Tellez, Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse, Hubert G. M. Leufkens, Veronika J. Wirtz WHO Collaborating Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy & Regulation, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences (UIPS), Utrecht, the Netherlands; Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Center for Health Systems Research, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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Decrease in penicillin Sales in Brazil after over-the-counter restrictions.
We read with great interest the recently published paper by Santa-Ana-Tellez et al. (1). In that work, the authors measured the changes in the seasonal variation in penicillin use before and after the restrictions on over-the-counter (OTC) antibiotic sales went into effect in Mexico and Brazil in 2010. Santa-Ana-Tellez et al. (1) found that following the implementation of policies to restrict O...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
دوره 59 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015