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. 1984 May;17(5):595–597.

Impaired enzyme induction by rifampicin in the elderly.

Y Twum-Barima, T Finnigan, A I Habash, R D Cape, S G Carruthers
PMCID: PMC1463462  PMID: 6733008

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