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Successful management of severe group A streptococcal soft tissue infections using an aggressive medical regimen including intravenous polyspecific immunoglobulin together with a conservative surgical approach

Anna Norrby-Teglund From the Centre for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Matthew P. Muller Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Microbiology, Toronto Medical Laboratories and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
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Allison McGeer Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Microbiology, Toronto Medical Laboratories and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Canada
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Bing Siang Gan Departments of Surgery, Physiology and Pharmacology, and Medical Biophysics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
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Veena Guru Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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John Bohnen Division of General Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Pontus Thulin From the Centre for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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Donald E. Low Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Department of Microbiology, Toronto Medical Laboratories and Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Canada
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Pages 166-172 | Received 22 Sep 2004, Accepted 30 Nov 2004, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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