Levamisole tainted cocaine causing severe neutropenia in Alberta and British Columbia

BACKGROUND: Five cases of severe neutropenia (neutrophil counts < 0.5 per 10(9 )cells/L) associated with exposure to cocaine and levamisole, an antihelimithic agent no longer available in Canada, were identified in Alberta in 2008. Alberta and British Columbia (BC) public health officials issued...

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Autores principales: Knowles, Lewinda, Buxton, Jane A, Skuridina, Nataliya, Achebe, Ifeoma, LeGatt, Donald, Fan, Shihe, Yan Zhu, Nancy, Talbot, James
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2780984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19919709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-6-30

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2780984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19919709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7517-6-30

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