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SAN FRANCISCO -- There are two important things to know about the recently identified threat of staphylococcal necrotizing pneumonia: It generally follows an influenza illness, and a physician seeing a patient in the clinic or office is not going to miss it.
That was the message of John G. Bartlett, M.D., who has been involved with four cases of necrotizing pneumonia seen in Baltimore recently. All of the cases occurred during a period of 2 months in the winter of 2003-2004, and...
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