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Infectious Disease
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General Infectious Disease
When would you consider an all-oral regimen for patients with Whipple's disease instead of the typical parenteral treatment with ceftriaxone or meropenem followed by oral TMP/SMX?
Moos V, et al., PMID 39978372
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