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Should azithromycin be used to treat COVID-19? A rapid review

Kome Gbinigie and Kerstin Frie
BJGP Open 2020; 4 (2): bjgpopen20X101094. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101094
Kome Gbinigie
1 GP and DPhil Student, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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2 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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vol. 4 no. 2 bjgpopen20X101094
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101094
PubMed 
32398343

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  • Received April 21, 2020
  • Accepted April 27, 2020
  • Published online June 23, 2020.

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  1. Kome Gbinigie1,* and
  2. Kerstin Frie2
  1. 1 GP and DPhil Student, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  2. 2 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Kome Gbinigie, Oghenekome.gbinigie{at}phc.ox.ac.uk
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