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Clinical features and outcomes of adult COVID-19 patients co-infected with Mycoplasma pneumoniae

JOURNAL OF INFECTION (2020)

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JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages E12-E15

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.07.010

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Anhui Provincial Special Project of Central Government Guiding Local Science and Technology Development of China [201907d07050001, 2020dx2-1]

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