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Site of absorption of erythromycin in rats

C C LEE, R C ANDERSON, K K CHEN

    Antibiotics & Chemotherapy (Northfield, Ill.)
    |February 19, 2014
    PubMed
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    Keywords:
    ERYTHROMYCIN/metabolismGASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM/physiology

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