Comparison of the effect of antibiotic treatment on the possibility of diagnosing invasive pneumococcal disease by culture or molecular methods: A prospective, observational study of children and adolescents with proven pneumococcal infection
- 1 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Clinical Therapeutics
- Vol. 31 (6), 1266-1273
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinthera.2009.06.010
Abstract
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