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Aseptic meningitis: A frequent side-effect of intravenous immunoglobulin?

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IVIG :

intraveneous immunoglobulin

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  1. Department of Paediatrics “C”, Children's Medical Centre of Israel, Petach Tikvah, Israel

    Rivka Preminger-Shapiro, Moshe Nussinovitch, Galia Soen & Itzhak Varsano

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Preminger-Shapiro, R., Nussinovitch, M., Soen, G. et al. Aseptic meningitis: A frequent side-effect of intravenous immunoglobulin?. Eur J Pediatr 154, 866–867 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01959803

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