Counterfeit antiepileptic drugs threaten community services in Guinea-Bissau and Nigeria.

نویسندگان

  • Willem M Otte
  • Eric van Diessen
  • Pieter van Eijsden
  • Frank van der Maas
  • Philip N Patsalos
  • Paul N Newton
  • Inácio C Alvarenga
  • Kees P Braun
  • Josemir W Sander
چکیده

Department of Neurology, Franz Tappeiner Hospital, I-39012 Merano, Italy (PL, RN, FB); Department of Neurology, Christian Doppler Clinic, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria (RN); Department of Neurology University A. Avogadro, Novara, Italy (PL); Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological, Morphological, and Movement Sciences, Section of Clinical Neurology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy (FB); and Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Children Hospital of Pittsburgh at UPMC (MST) and Section of Neuroradiology (GZ), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Lancet. Neurology

دوره 14 11  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015