An Epidemiological Investigation of a Sustained High Rate of Pediatric Parapneumonic Empyema: Risk Factors and Microbiological Associations
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- 15 February 2002
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 34 (4), 434-440
- https://doi.org/10.1086/338460
Abstract
We investigated the increasing incidence of pediatric empyema during the 1990s at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City. Of 540 childreKeywords
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