A 7-Year-Old Boy with Prolonged Fever

Zoe King1, Brenda I Anosike1, Rachel Offenbacher1

  • 1from the Pediatric Hematology and Oncology and Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship Programs at The Children's Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

NEJM Evidence
|April 22, 2025
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