Ceftriaxone as effective as long-acting chloramphenicol in short-course treatment of meningococcal meningitis during epidemics: a randomised non-inferiority study
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Elsevier in The Lancet
- Vol. 366 (9482) , 308-313
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(05)66792-x
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