Quali-quantitative analysis of best selling drugs from pharmacy, street market and traditional herbal medicine: A pilot study of market surveillance in Senegal

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Volumn 104, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-66

  Pichini, Simona ^a   Rotolo, Maria Concetta ^a   Bellotti, Pasquale ^b   Minutillo, Adele ^a   Mastrobattista, Luisa ^a   Pacifici, Roberta ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b L'Amaca Onlus   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drugs market surveillance; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Senegal; Traditional herbal medicine

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ASCORBIC ACID; CAFFEINE; CHLOROFORM; CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE; CODEINE; CODEINE PHOSPHATE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; IBUPROFEN; LYSINE ACETYLSALICYLATE; PARACETAMOL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PIROXICAM; SALICYLIC ACID; SILDENAFIL; COUNTERFEIT DRUG; DRUG; STREET DRUG;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHILD; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG LABELING; DRUG MANUFACTURE; DRUG MARKETING; DRUG SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM; DYNAMICS; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PH; PHARMACY; PILOT STUDY; POWDER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENEGAL; AFRICAN MEDICINE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STANDARDS;

COUNTERFEIT DRUGS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HERBAL MEDICINE; MEDICINE, AFRICAN TRADITIONAL; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHARMACY; PILOT PROJECTS; SENEGAL; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 84913528976     PISSN: 07317085     EISSN: 1873264X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2014.11.016     Document Type: Article

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