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Jun 2022
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#16 How drug safety can help fight resis...

Uppsala Monitoring Centre
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Send a text message to the show! Managing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will require innovative solutions from many different disciplines. Could pharmacovigilance be one of them? Jean Marie Vianney Habarugira and Albert Figueras, who have been investigating how drug safety tools could help track AMR, think it’s time the two communities joined forces for goo ... Show More
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