Facing the ongoing challenge of the febrile young infant

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2017. Other selected articles can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2017. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Critical Care

• Publication date

  2017-03-21

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1186/s13054-017-1646-9PMID 28320432PMCID 5360075
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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