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Oral Ciprofloxacin in the Treatment of Cholera

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  1. Instituto de Medicina Tropical ‘Alexander von Humboldt’, Uni-versidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, PO Box 4314, Lima 100, Peru

    Eduardo Gotuzzo, Carlos Seas, Juan Echevarria, Rosa Ruiz & Carlos Carrillo

  2. Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia, Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales, Lima, Peru

    Eduardo Gotuzzo, Carlos Seas, Juan Echevarria & Carlos Carrillo

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Gotuzzo, E., Seas, C., Echevarria, J. et al. Oral Ciprofloxacin in the Treatment of Cholera. Drugs 49 (Suppl 2), 451–453 (1995). https://doi.org/10.2165/00003495-199500492-00132

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