Azithromycin Has Been Flying Off the Shelves: The Italian Lesson Learnt from Improper Use of Antibiotics against COVID-19.

Medicina (Kaunas)

Department of Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine and Surgery, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", 80138 Naples, Italy.

Published: March 2022

The warning by the Italian Medicines Agency on the high shortage of azithromycin in the country in January 2022 represents a paradigmatic lesson learnt from improper use of antibiotics during COVID-19 pandemic.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8955327PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina58030363DOI Listing

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