A case report of bacteremia manifesting as an overwhelming postsplenectomy infection due to Streptococcus pneumoniae post vaccination

A 62-year-old woman was admitted for acute epigastralgia and high-grade fever of over 39 °C. The patient had undergone splenectomy for idiopathic portal hypertension 1 year ago and vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae immediately post operation. She developed localized peritoneal irritation...

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Autores principales: Hirose, Kosuke, Okabe, Hirohisa, Yoshizumi, Tomoharu, Uchiyama, Hideaki, Ikegami, Toru, Harimoto, Norifumi, Itoh, Shinji, Kimura, Koichi, Baba, Hideo, Maehara, Yoshihiko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27221131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-016-0173-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4879078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27221131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40792-016-0173-2

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