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Case Reports
. 2017 Oct 23:2017:bcr2017222542.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2017-222542.

Necrotising pneumonia following influenza due to PVL-negative Staphylococcus aureus in a 64-year-old woman

Sandrine Roux  1 , François Vandenesch  2   3   4 , Thomas Perpoint  1 , Tristan Ferry  1   3   4
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Case Reports

Necrotising pneumonia following influenza due to PVL-negative Staphylococcus aureus in a 64-year-old woman

Sandrine Roux et al. BMJ Case Rep. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Infectious Diseases; Influenza.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Chest X-ray (A) and CT scan (B,C) showing multilobar pneumonia with necrosis within the infected parenchyma.
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