Blood culture: specificity in childhood bacterial pneumonia

Blood culture; Childhood pneumonia

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Blood culture: specificity in childhood bacterial pneumonia

Bernardo Ejzenberg^I; Joaquim C. Rodrigues^I; Vera S. Dias Vieira^II; Maria C. C. Brandileone^II; Evandro Roberto Baldacci^III; Yassuhiko Okay^IV

^IMD, PhD in Pediatrics

^IIAdolfo Lutz Institute Researcher

^IIIMD, Emergency Care Director

^IVChairman of Pediatrics Department

^{Correspondence to}

Keywords: Blood culture; Childhood pneumonia

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors thank Dr. Robert Austrian, Department of Research Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelfia, Pennsylvania, USA, who serotyped the Streptococcus pneumoniae strains.

Recebido para publicação em 12/06/1995.

Aceito para publicação em 15/09/1995.

Institutions: University Hospital, Children's Institute of the Pediatrics Department of the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo, Adolfo Lutz Institute.

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Correspondence to:

Dr. Bernardo Ejzenberg / Prof. Dr. Yassuhiko Okay

Divisão de Clínica Pediátrica, Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo

Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes 2565

Cidade Universitária 05508-900 São Paulo, S.P., Brazil

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  22 Sept 2006
• Date of issue
  Dec 1995

History

• Accepted
  15 Sept 1995
• Received
  12 June 1995