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Case 24. A 13-Year-Old Girl with Fever for 13 Days and Cough and Dyspnea for 7 Days: Miliary Tuberculosis

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    Ping-Ing Lee

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  3. Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, Taiwan

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Lee, PI. (2023). Case 24. A 13-Year-Old Girl with Fever for 13 Days and Cough and Dyspnea for 7 Days: Miliary Tuberculosis. In: Huang, YC., Lee, PI., Chen, PY. (eds) Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7276-8_24

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