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Tuberculous Meningitis Fitting the Shoes of Incomplete Kawasaki Disease

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Pondicherry, 605006, India

    Kaviarasan Lingesan, Malini Maya, Jaikumar Govindaswamy Ramamoorthy, Pediredla Karunakar, Dhandapany Gunasekaran, Nanmaaran Periyannan Thangavel, Routhu Santhosh Kumar & Venkataraman Ranjith Kumar

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Lingesan, K., Maya, M., Ramamoorthy, J.G. et al. Tuberculous Meningitis Fitting the Shoes of Incomplete Kawasaki Disease. Indian J Pediatr 87, 1086–1087 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-020-03339-3

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