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Predictability of vancomycin pharmacokinetics in neonates

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The clinical research of K. Allegaert is supported by the Clinical Research Fund of the University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium.

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  1. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Division of Women and Child, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    K. Allegaert

  2. Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

    J. N. van den Anker

  3. Departments of Pediatrics, Pharmacology and Physiology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

    J. N. van den Anker

  4. Department of Pediatrics, Erasmus MC—Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    J. N. van den Anker

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Allegaert, K., van den Anker, J.N. Predictability of vancomycin pharmacokinetics in neonates. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 26, 847–848 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-007-0367-4

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