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Switching to oral antibiotics after at least 24 hours of IV therapy was noninferior to 5 days of IV therapy for treating young children with severe community-acquired pneumonia, according to study data published in The Lancet.WHO currently recommends treating children with severe pneumonia with 5 days of IV antibiotics, during which the children typically have to remain hospitalized, according to
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