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Mar 2014
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Top 200 Drugs - Antibiotics

Sean P. Kane, PharmD; Khyati Patel, PharmD
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In this session of the RFUMS Top 200 Drugs Podcast, we discuss antibiotics: metronidazole, clindamycin, doxycycline, nitrofurantoin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, mupirocin, zinc oxide, and polyethylene glycol 400.

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