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Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency and General Internal Medicine, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan.
² Department of Pulmonology, Pittsburg University School of Medicine, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

Comment

Teruhiko Terasawa et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2021.

. 2021 Jul 1;73(1):e273-e274.

doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1643.

¹ Department of Emergency and General Internal Medicine, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan.
² Department of Pulmonology, Pittsburg University School of Medicine, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA.

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