Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2002Vol. 34pp. -
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Abstract
Childhood pneumonia is usually treated without determining its etiology. The causative organism can be isolated from specimens of blood, empyema fluid, or lung aspirate, but this is rarely done. The potential of transthoracic needle aspiration for identification of causative agents was tested with u …