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Bacterial pericarditis is a relatively uncommon cause of pericarditis in adults (no more than 5 % of all unselected cases) if tuberculosis is not endemic [1, 2].
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Imazio, M. (2016). Acute Pericarditis: Specific Aetiologies (Non-viral, Non-idiopathic). In: Myopericardial Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27156-9_10
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