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Lin, JJ. (2023). Case 9. A 5-Year-Old Girl with Acute Onset of Generalized Tonic-Clonic Seizures for Ten Minutes: Mycoplasma Pneumoniae-Associated Encephalitis. In: Huang, YC., Lee, PI., Chen, PY. (eds) Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7276-8_9
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