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Severe infantile Bordetella pertussis pneumonia in monozygotic twins with a congenital C3 deficiency

Bordetella pertussis or whooping cough is a vaccine-preventable disease that still remains a serious infection in neonates and young infants. We describe two young infants, monozygotic twins, with a severe B. pertussis pneumonia of whom one needed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Diagnostic work...

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Autores principales: Kurvers, Roel A. J., Westra, Dineke, van Heijst, Arno F., Walk, Twiggy L. M., Warris, Adilia, van de Kar, Nicole C. A. J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7087018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23963626
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00431-013-2107-3