Gram-negative enteric bacillary meningitis: a twenty-one-year experience.

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Published in J Pediatr on January 01, 1993

Authors

M Unhanand1, M M Mustafa, G H McCracken, J D Nelson

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

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