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Antagonistic effect between tigecycline and meropenem: from bed to bench to bed

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  1. Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Rua Imaculada Conceição, 1155 Prado Velho, Curitiba, PR, 80215-901, Brazil

    Lavinia Arend & Felipe Francisco Tuon

  2. Laboratório Central do Estado (LACEN-PR), Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Lavinia Arend

  3. Infectious Diseases Department, AC Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    João Paulo Telles

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Felipe Tuon has received research grants from Pfizer and MSD in the last year. Felipe Tuon conducts research for CNPQ.

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Arend, L., Telles, J.P. & Tuon, F.F. Antagonistic effect between tigecycline and meropenem: from bed to bench to bed. Infection 48, 141–142 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-019-01353-y

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