Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease associated with high morbidity and mortality, often caused by infection. We report two patients with SLE who were treated with steroids and immunosuppressive medication and then developed invasive Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections. Whi...

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Autores principales: Wu, Dongning, Bromberg, Kenneth, Jodorkovsky, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/896014
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description Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease associated with high morbidity and mortality, often caused by infection. We report two patients with SLE who were treated with steroids and immunosuppressive medication and then developed invasive Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections. While GBS infection is rare in the nonneonatal pediatric age group, GBS should be considered when treating SLE patients presenting with signs of infection.
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spelling pubmed-36385232013-05-20 Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Wu, Dongning Bromberg, Kenneth Jodorkovsky, Roberto Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease associated with high morbidity and mortality, often caused by infection. We report two patients with SLE who were treated with steroids and immunosuppressive medication and then developed invasive Group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections. While GBS infection is rare in the nonneonatal pediatric age group, GBS should be considered when treating SLE patients presenting with signs of infection. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3638523/ /pubmed/23691410 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/896014 Text en Copyright © 2013 Dongning Wu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_fullStr Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_full_unstemmed Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_short Invasive Group B Streptococcal Disease in Two Pediatric Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
title_sort invasive group b streptococcal disease in two pediatric patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3638523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/896014
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