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Position Paper on Kawasaki Disease in India: Pertinent issues

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, National University of Science and Technology, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

    Gowda Parameshwara Prashanth

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Sohar Regional Teaching Hospital, Sohar, Sultanate of Oman

    Anita Tandon

  3. Department of Pediatrics, Manipal Hospitals, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

    Bhaskar Shenoy

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Prashanth, G.P., Tandon, A. & Shenoy, B. Position Paper on Kawasaki Disease in India: Pertinent issues. Indian Pediatr 58, 292–293 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-021-2183-9

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