Fatal Pseudomonas aeruginosa bronchopneumonia in a children's hospital.

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  • A J Barson
چکیده

Barson, A. J. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 55. Fatal Pseudomonas aeruginosa bronchopneumonia in a children's hospital. Forty fatal cases of pseudomonas bronchopneumonia were found in a retrospective review of 600 consecutive necropsies in a children's hospital. This type of infection has been much more common in recent years and was shown to have a predilection for the premature infant dying in the neonatal period, who had been mechanically ventilated.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of disease in childhood

دوره 46 245  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1971