A lactating woman presenting with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Streptococcus pneumoniae is an uncommon etiologic agent in soft-tissue infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 35-year-old Caucasian woman who presented to our facility with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis, and review the only other three cases of pneumococcal mastitis d...

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Autores principales: Miedzybrodzki, Barbara, Miller, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3651347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23618042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-7-114
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description INTRODUCTION: Streptococcus pneumoniae is an uncommon etiologic agent in soft-tissue infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 35-year-old Caucasian woman who presented to our facility with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis, and review the only other three cases of pneumococcal mastitis described in the medical literature. CONCLUSIONS: The roles of the various pneumococcal vaccines in preventing this disease are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-36513472013-05-11 A lactating woman presenting with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis: a case report Miedzybrodzki, Barbara Miller, Mark J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Streptococcus pneumoniae is an uncommon etiologic agent in soft-tissue infections. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 35-year-old Caucasian woman who presented to our facility with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis, and review the only other three cases of pneumococcal mastitis described in the medical literature. CONCLUSIONS: The roles of the various pneumococcal vaccines in preventing this disease are discussed. BioMed Central 2013-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3651347/ /pubmed/23618042 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-7-114 Text en Copyright © 2013 Miedzybrodzki and Miller; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full A lactating woman presenting with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis: a case report
title_fullStr A lactating woman presenting with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis: a case report
title_full_unstemmed A lactating woman presenting with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis: a case report
title_short A lactating woman presenting with puerperal pneumococcal mastitis: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3651347/
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