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Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases Volume 37, 2005 - Issue 6-7
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Overprescribing of antibiotics to children in rural Vietnam

Mattias Larsson From the Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health (IHCAR), The Karolinska Institute, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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Torkel Falkenberg From the Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health (IHCAR), The Karolinska Institute, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden; International Centre for Studies of Complementary Medicine, Department of Nursing, The Karolinska Institute, 141 83, Huddinge, Sweden
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Alain Dardashti From the Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health (IHCAR), The Karolinska Institute, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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Tomi Ekman From the Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of International Health (IHCAR), The Karolinska Institute, SE-171 76, Stockholm, Sweden
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Sam Törnquist The National Institute for Clinical Research in Tropical Medicine, Bach Mai Hospital, No 1, Hanoi, Sweden; Vietnam-Sweden Health Co-operation, Hanoi, Sweden
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Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc Health Strategy and Policy Institute (HSPI) and Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Sweden
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Lars-Olof Hansson Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, The Department of Surgery, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Göran Kronvall Clinical Microbiology-MTC, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 442-448 | Received 10 Dec 2004, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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