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. 2018 Mar 21:7:e35906.
doi: 10.7554/eLife.35906.

Can aspirin help?

Ashwini Kalantri  1 , Shriprakash Kalantri  2
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Can aspirin help?

Ashwini Kalantri et al. Elife. .

Abstract

Using a combination of aspirin, anti-tuberculosis drugs and steroids may help to reduce the number of strokes and deaths in patients with tuberculous meningitis.

Keywords: Mycobacterium tuberculosis; aspirin; clinical trial; human; infectious disease; microbiology; stroke; tuberculosis; tuberculous meningitis.

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AK, SK No competing interests declared

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