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Editorial
. 2018 Jun 1;13(8):849-852.
doi: 10.2217/fmb-2018-0101. Epub 2018 Jun 13.

The use of prescribed opioid analgesics & the risk of serious infections

Andrew D Wiese  1 , Carlos G Grijalva  1   2
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Editorial

The use of prescribed opioid analgesics & the risk of serious infections

Andrew D Wiese et al. Future Microbiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: immunosuppression; opioid analgesics; serious infections.

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Conflict of interest statement

Financial & competing interests disclosure

This work was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health (R03 AG042981 and R01 AG043471). AD Wiese has no financial disclosures or conflicts of interest to report. CG Grijalva has received consulting fees from Pfizer and Merck and received research support from Sanofi-Pasteur, Campbell Alliance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, The Food and Drug Administration, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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