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Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of pediatric osteomyelitis in northern California

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The dataset analyzed during the current study is not publicly available due to privacy protection. Consent to access data must be obtained from the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, UCLA Medical Center, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, A2-383 MDCC, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Xiao Ben Wang

  2. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, CA, USA

    Xiao Ben Wang, Navendu Samant & Carol Glaser

  3. Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

    Justin Searns

  4. California Department of Public Health, CA, Richmond, USA

    Carol Glaser

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WX contributed to conceptualization, data curation, formal analysis, visualization, and writing of the original draft. SN contributed to data curation, formal analysis, reviewing and editing. SJ contributed to formal analysis, visualization, reviewing and editing. GC contributed to conceptualization, formal analysis, reviewing and editing. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Wang, X.B., Samant, N., Searns, J. et al. Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of pediatric osteomyelitis in northern California. World J Pediatr 19, 609–613 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12519-022-00663-w

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