Endophthalmitis Outbreak Associated with Repackaged Bevacizumab

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2014 Dec 23

PMID 25531168

Citations 13

Authors

Laura S Edison

Hope O Dishman

Melissa J Tobin-DAngelo

C Richard Allen

Alice Y Guh

Cherie L Drenzek

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