Serum Penicillin G Levels Are Lower Than Expected in Adults within Two Weeks of Administration of 1.2 Million Units

Michael P. Broderick; Christian J. Hansen; Kevin L. Russell; Edward L. Kaplan; Jeffrey L. Blumer; Dennis J. Faix

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025308

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Serum Penicillin G Levels Are Lower Than Expected in Adults within Two Weeks of Administration of 1.2 Million Units

Michael P. Broderick ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael P. Broderick, Edward L. Kaplan, Dennis J. Faix

* E-mail: michael.broderick@med.navy.mil

Affiliation Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Christian J. Hansen,

Affiliation Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Kevin L. Russell,

Affiliations Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California, United States of America, United States Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America
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Edward L. Kaplan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael P. Broderick, Edward L. Kaplan, Dennis J. Faix

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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Jeffrey L. Blumer,

Current address: The University of Toledo, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliation Departments of Pediatrics and Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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Dennis J. Faix

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael P. Broderick, Edward L. Kaplan, Dennis J. Faix

Affiliation Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California, United States of America
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Serum Penicillin G Levels Are Lower Than Expected in Adults within Two Weeks of Administration of 1.2 Million Units

Michael P. Broderick,
Christian J. Hansen,
Kevin L. Russell,
Edward L. Kaplan,
Jeffrey L. Blumer,
Dennis J. Faix

Published: October 4, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025308

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