The prognosis of critically ill patients with invasive group A streptococcus infection

Affiliations

¹ Division of Community Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University Himi Municipal Hospital, 1130 Kurakawa, Himi, Toyama, Japan.
² Second Department of Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan. teimamu@med.u-toyama.ac.jp.

Comment

Toshihide Izumida et al. Crit Care. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 14;24(1):437.

doi: 10.1186/s13054-020-03167-z.

¹ Division of Community Medicine, Kanazawa Medical University Himi Municipal Hospital, 1130 Kurakawa, Himi, Toyama, Japan.
² Second Department of Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama, 930-0194, Japan. teimamu@med.u-toyama.ac.jp.

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Keywords: Cardiology; Critical care medicine; Sepsis.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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