Are blood cultures effective in the evaluation of fever in perioperative patients?
- 31 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 162 (6) , 615-619
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9610(91)90121-s
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