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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

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And Van den Bruel in BMJ 2011 found procalcitonin to have better specificity than white blood cell count. And I think I would consult local practice variation, um, and what your colleagues do and the risk of contamination will not increase while the blood culture sits if it was obtained correctly. Now let’s talk about pneumonia.