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Aimen Iqbal1, Daniya Muhammad Haroon2, Sanya Badar1

  • 1Internal Medicine, The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, Scranton, USA.

Cureus
|November 29, 2023
PubMed
概括

肺炎是一种肺部感染,很少会被Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS) 引起. 这份病例报告详细介绍了一名年轻女子在感染B型流感后患上了GAS肺炎.

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