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Comment
. 2020 Oct:143:109913.
doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109913. Epub 2020 May 30.

Antibiotic consumption may be linked to exaggeration of COVID-19

Muhammad Asaduzzaman  1 , Farzana Zaman  2 , Emily Rousham  3
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Antibiotic consumption may be linked to exaggeration of COVID-19

Muhammad Asaduzzaman et al. Med Hypotheses. 2020 Oct.
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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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