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Meimei Wang1, Junping Pan1

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (The First People's Hospital of Hefei) Hefei 230092, Anhui, China.

概括

严重的儿科肺炎与多种病毒感染和混合感染有关,导致症状加重和住院时间更长. 在混合感染病例中观察到较低的疫苗接种率,这凸显了需要更好的预防和治疗策略的需要.

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