Blood Culture in Evaluation of Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
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324 | VOLUME 5 • ISSUE 6 www.hospitalpediatrics.org AUTHORS Pui-Ying Iroh Tam, MD,1 Ethan Bernstein, BA,2 Xiaoye Ma, MS,3 Patricia Ferrieri, MD1,4 1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 2University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 3Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and 4Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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