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Comment
. 2020 Oct 24;396(10259):1333-1334.
doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32144-9.

Sepsis hysteria? Not for children - Authors' reply

Mervyn Singer  1 , Matt Inada-Kim  2 , Mark Peters  3 , Kathryn Maitland  4
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Sepsis hysteria? Not for children - Authors' reply

Mervyn Singer et al. Lancet. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

MS reports grants from NewB, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Critical Pressure, and Apollo Therapeutics; and consulting fees and honoraria paid to his institution research fund from NewB, Amormed, Biotest, General Electric, Baxter, Roche, Bayer, and Shionogi. All other authors declare no competing interests.

Comment on

  • Sepsis hysteria? Not for children.
    Sanchez-Pinto LN, González-Dambrauskas S, Jabornisky R, Naidoo K, Schlapbach LJ, Kissoon N. Sanchez-Pinto LN, et al. Lancet. 2020 Oct 24;396(10259):1332-1333. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32148-6. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 34338208 No abstract available.

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