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01.07.2015 | Correspondence
Should All Children Admitted with Community Acquired Pneumonia have Blood Cultures Taken? Authors’ Reply
verfasst von:
Anna Marie Nathan, Jessie A. de Bruyne
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
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Ausgabe 7/2015
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To the Editor: We thank Dr. Yasri and Professor Wiwanitkit for their interest in our article entitled, “Should all children admitted with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) have blood cultures taken?” and their valued comments. In this study, we found that the yield of blood cultures in children admitted with CAP was low (1.2 %) and that the rate of false positive blood cultures (1.8 %) was higher [
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