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Cephalosporin-resistant Pneumococci and Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell anemia patients have 600 times the risk for invasive pneumococcal disease than their healthy peers. High-level cephalosporin resistance was described in the 1990s in healthy children from Tennessee, but its prevalence in sickle cell disease patients is unknown. Pneumococcal isolates from...

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Autores principales: Miller, Martha L., Obert, Caroline A., Gao, Geli, Daw, Najat C., Flynn, Patricia, Tuomanen, Elaine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16102306
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1108.050152