Amoxicillin for the secondary prevention of rheumatic fever in children not allergic to penicillin : correspondence

Amoxicillin for the secondary prevention of rheumatic fever in children not allergic to penicillin : correspondence

To the Editor: In October 2014, a communication from the Department of Health substituted azithromycin for erythromycin for penicillin-allergic patients. This was for certain conditions including acute rheumatic fever and prophylaxis of rheumatic fever. It has recently been suggested that owing to t...

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Veröffentlicht in:South African medical journal 2016-04, Vol.106 (4), p.317
Hauptverfasser: Van Lobenstein, Jeroen, Hoosen, Ebrahim G.M., Sprenger, Ken, Annamalai, Medeshni
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