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Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2021 Aug 01;40(8):782-784. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003078.

A 9-Year-Old Male With Fever, Proptosis and Hemodynamic Instability.

The Pediatric infectious disease journal

Gayana P S Gunaratna, Annaleise R Howard-Jones, Ameneh Khatami, Julie Huynh, Alison M Kesson

Affiliations

  1. From the Department of Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.
  2. Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka.
  3. Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia.
  4. Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

PMID: 34250980 DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003078

[No abstract available.]

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose.

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