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Academic Society Frets Availability of 1st-Gen Oral Cephems amid Choseido Halt
As new manufacturing issues at Choseido Pharmaceutical have crippled the supply of antibiotics in Japan, Naoki Hasegawa, president of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases, aired concerns over the impact particularly on first-generation oral cephems in a recent interview with…
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