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Salbutamol in acute organophosphorus insecticide poisoning – a pilotdose-response phase II study

Fazle Rabbi ChowdhuryDepartment of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh; ;Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; ;Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; Correspondence[email protected]
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Md. Mustafezur RahmanDepartment of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh; ;Department of Gastroenterology, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, Bangladesh; View further author information
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Parash UllahDepartment of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh; ;Department of Medicine, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh; View further author information
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Abdul Mumith RuhanDepartment of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh; View further author information
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Md. Shafiqul BariDepartment of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh; View further author information
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M. M. Jahangir AlamDepartment of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh; View further author information
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Md. Moyeen UddinDepartment of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh; View further author information
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Shomik MarufInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; View further author information
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Md. Ismail PatwaryDepartment of Medicine, Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, Sylhet, Bangladesh; View further author information
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Michael EddlestonDepartment of Pharmacology, Toxicology, & Therapeutics, University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK; ;South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri LankaORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-6857-3441View further author information
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Pages 820-827 | Received 22 Nov 2017, Accepted 09 Feb 2018, Published online: 20 Feb 2018

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