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Original Articles

16S rRNA is a valuable tool in finding bacterial aetiology of community-acquired pleural empyema–a population-based observational study in South Sweden

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Pages 163-169 | Received 16 Jun 2021, Accepted 21 Sep 2021, Published online: 04 Oct 2021

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