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The authors present a 16-mo-old boy with flu like symptoms, not responding to supportive management and progressed to severe hypoxemic pneumonia. Adenovirus was detected in the nasopharyngeal aspirate. He showed rapid improvement after intravenous cidofovir administration.
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Gupta, A., Khanna, P., Parihar, A. et al. Cidofovir in Severe Hypoxemic Adenoviral Pneumonia. Indian J Pediatr 91, 398–400 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-023-04812-5
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