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Efficacy comparison of oseltamivir alone and oseltamivir-antibiotic combination for early resolution of symptoms of severe influenza-A and influenza-B hospitalized patients

Azfar A. Ishaqui, Amer H. Khan, Syed A. Sulaiman, Muhammad Alsultan and Irfanullah Khan
Saudi Medical Journal September 2020, 41 (9) 1015-1021; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.9.25249
Azfar A. Ishaqui
From the Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Khan A, Sulaiman, Khan I), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia and from the Department of Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Alsultan), King Abdulaziz Hospital, National Guard Health Authority; and from the King Abdullah Medical Research Center (Ishaqui, Alsultan), Al Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Pharm-D, M.Phil
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Amer H. Khan
From the Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Khan A, Sulaiman, Khan I), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia and from the Department of Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Alsultan), King Abdulaziz Hospital, National Guard Health Authority; and from the King Abdullah Medical Research Center (Ishaqui, Alsultan), Al Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Syed A. Sulaiman
From the Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Khan A, Sulaiman, Khan I), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia and from the Department of Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Alsultan), King Abdulaziz Hospital, National Guard Health Authority; and from the King Abdullah Medical Research Center (Ishaqui, Alsultan), Al Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Muhammad Alsultan
From the Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Khan A, Sulaiman, Khan I), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia and from the Department of Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Alsultan), King Abdulaziz Hospital, National Guard Health Authority; and from the King Abdullah Medical Research Center (Ishaqui, Alsultan), Al Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Irfanullah Khan
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vol. 41 no. 9 1015-1021
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.9.25249
PubMed 
32893285

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 15, 2020
  • Accepted July 6, 2020
  • Published online September 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Azfar A. Ishaqui, Pharm-D, M.Phil,
  2. Amer H. Khan, MS, PhD⇑,
  3. Syed A. Sulaiman, MS, PhD,
  4. Muhammad Alsultan, Pharm-D, MS and
  5. Irfanullah Khan, Pharm-D, MS
  1. From the Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Khan A, Sulaiman, Khan I), School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia and from the Department of Pharmacy (Ishaqui, Alsultan), King Abdulaziz Hospital, National Guard Health Authority; and from the King Abdullah Medical Research Center (Ishaqui, Alsultan), Al Ahsa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprints request to: Dr. Amer H. Khan, Discipline of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. E-mail: dramer{at}usm.my ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4802-6181
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