| acute purulent pericarditis in omani children. | a total of eight children admitted to the royal hospital, muscat with purulent pericardial effusions were analysed. six of the cases were in children less than 2 years of age. five of the eight children had positive blood cultures: haemophilus influenzae was cultured from two patients, streptococcus pneumoniae from one patient, e. coli from one patient and streptococcus viridans from the remaining child. in three children both blood and pericardial cultures were sterile; two of these children ha ... | 1991 | 1784056 |