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Dog Bites are an Indication for Routine Antibiotic Therapy
Brit Long1, Michael D April1, Alex Koyfman2
1Department of Emergency Medicine, San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium, Fort Sam Houston, TX.
Annals of Emergency Medicine
|June 28, 2020
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