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Visualization of Streptococcus pneumoniae within Cardiac Microlesions and Subsequent Cardiac Remodeling
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Two Pediatric Cases of Left-sided, Native-valve Streptococcus pneumoniae Endocarditis
Natalya Beneschott1, Rachel K Duncan, Sophie E Katz
1Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|June 25, 2024
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