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Special Focus: Pediatric Infections - Review

Group A streptococcal pharyngitis and immune-mediated complications: from diagnosis to management

Stanford T Shulman Virginia H Rogers Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA. [email protected]
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Robert R Tanz Professor of Pediatric Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine, Division of General Academic Pediatrics, The Children’s Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA. [email protected]
Pages 137-150 | Published online: 10 Jan 2014

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