Dog bites in children: Epidemiology, microbiology, and penicillin prophylactic therapy
Douglas A. Boenning
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- Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in General Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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‡Douglas A. Boenning
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- Robert Wood Johnson Fellow in General Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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- Address reprint requests to Douglas A. Boenning, MD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th St and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA, 19104.
Gary R. Fleisher
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- Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Director of the Emergency Department, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Joseph M. Campos
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- Director, Microbiology Laboratory, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
‡Currently Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
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