HPS-164 - Substandard and falsified antimicrobial medicines: assessment of quality of various antibiotics procured in four hospitals in South East Nigeria

• At: Copenhagen (Denmark) (2025)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-164
• By: ONODUGO, Chinenye (Pharmacy Department, University Of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku Ozalla Enugu State Nigeria, Nigeria)
• Co-author(s): Dr Chinenye Onodugo (Pharmacy Department, University Of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku Ozalla Enugu State Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria)
  Dr Ngozi Udem (Pharmacy Department, University Of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku Ozalla Enugu State Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria)
  Pharm Uju Chukwurah (Pharmacy Department, University Of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku Ozalla Enugu State Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria)
  Pharm Uwaoma Fidelis-Ewa (Pharmacy Department, University Of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku Ozalla Enugu State Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria)
  Lauren Rahm (Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Trust, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
  Pharm Lawrence Nnaji (Pharmacy Department, University Of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku Ozalla Enugu State Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria)
  Pharm Gideon Nwafor (Pharmacy Department, University Of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Ituku Ozalla Enugu State Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria)
  
• Abstract:

  Introduction: Globally, a lot of focus has been on substandard and falsified medicines (SFMs). Substandard medicines are genuinely manufactured and authorised medications which fail to meet quality standards or specifications or both. Falsified medicines are deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity, composition and..

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