Report on a Case of Staphylococcal Pneumonia with Staphylococcal Septicæmia

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  • Alexander Johnson
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PERSONAL HISTORY. IHE patient, a female, aged 10 years, weighing 5 st. 6 lb., height 4 ft. 10 in., has a congenital heart lesion, recognised since birth and described below. No disease in infancy. Chicken-pox. Measles and lobar pneumonia (consolidation both sides)' all in sixth year. Lobar pneumonia again at seven years. Influenza age 8; nil since, apart from a mild catarrhal cold with no temperature, and only a few rhonchi in her chest for four to five weeks immediately prior to her present illness.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Ulster Medical Journal

دوره 13  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1944