Chapter V Availability and pharmaceutical quality of antibiotics obtained with or without prescription (Over The Counter) in urban Indonesia
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1 Department of Internal Medicine, 3 Department of Pharmacy, 4 Department of Urology Airlangga University School of Medicine. Dr. Soetomo Teaching Hospital Surabaya, Indonesia 2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 5 Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious diseases, Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Department of Internal Medicine, Nijmegen University Centre for Infectious Diseases International Health (NUCI), Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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