Southern Medical Journal - A case of clinical tetanus in a patient with protective antitetanus antibody level.(Letter to the editor)
SAN FRANCISCO — The risk for hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients treated with gatifloxacin or levofloxacin increased 112-fold if the patients were diabetic and 10-fold if the dosage was too high for their kidneys to handle, John F. Mohr, Pharm.D., reported at the annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
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