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Cefotetan-induced life-threatening haemolysis

Heather E Robinson, Ellen L Maxwell, H Miles Prince, Mary A O'Reilly and Andrew Jakobovits
Med J Aust 2006; 184 (5): . || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00217.x
Published online: 6 March 2006

Heather E Robinson,* Ellen L Maxwell, H Miles Prince, Mary A O'Reilly,§ Andrew Jakobovits


  • 1 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Locked Bag 1, A'Beckett Street, East Melbourne, VIC 8006
  • 2 Melbourne Pathology, Melbourne, VIC
  • 4 Cabrini Health, Melbourne, VIC.


Correspondence: Miles.Prince@petermac.org

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