Clinical Features and Predictors of Diphtheritic Cardiomyopathy in Vietnamese Children
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- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 39 (11) , 1591-1598
Abstract
Background. Despite the availability of antitoxin and antibiotics, the mortality rate for diphtheria remains high, mostly because of cardiac complicaKeywords
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