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The design of a study of the drug etiology of agranulocytosis and aplastic anemia

A report from the international agranulocytosis and aplastic anemia study

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  1. Drug Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, 777 Concord Avenue, 02138, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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Participants are as follows Chairman: M.Levy, Jerusalem;Coordination and Data Analysis (Drug Epidemiology Unit): D.Slone, S.Shapiro, T.Anderson, L.J.Blair, P.T.Cook, J.J.Farrell, L.F.Gaetano, D.W.Kaufman, Boston;Investigators: J.R.Laporte, Barcelona; H.Kewitz, Berlin; G.Retsagi, S.Hollan, Budapest; M.Levy, Z.Stern, Jerusalem; G. Tognoni, Milan; H.Heimpel, W.Heit, Ulm;Data Collection: X.Carne, L.Ibanez, Barcelona; M.Klein, C.Scott, Berlin; E.Czink, A.Laszlo, Budapest; M.Beiski, F.Simon, Z.Toledano, Jerusalem; C.LaVecchia, P.Liati, M.G.Zurlo, Milan; I.Bayer, R.Kreuzer, Ulm;Epidemiological Consulatation: O.S.Miettinen, Boston;Hematology Review Committee: H.Heimpel, W.Heit, Ulm; G.Lambertenghi, Milan; A.Polliack, Jerusalem

Dr. Slone died on May 10, 1982

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Shapiro, S. The design of a study of the drug etiology of agranulocytosis and aplastic anemia. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 24, 833–836 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00607096

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