Pneumococcal pleural empyemas in children

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1057-1063

  Hardie, William ^b   Bokulic, Ronald ^b   Garcia, Victor F ^b   Reising, Shirley F ^b   Christie, Celia D C ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0029766091     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.6.1057     Document Type: Article

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