Assessment of the incidence of substandard drugs in developing countries
Open Access
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 2 (9), 839-845
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3156.1997.d01-403.x
Abstract
In a number of developing countries there is reportedly a high incidence of the availability of substandard drugs. The majonty of these reports do not contain quantitative data to support these claim...Keywords
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