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Chapter 44 - Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

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Bradley W. Frazee ,
Christopher Fee  and
Rachel L. Chin
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 280 - 287
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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