A case report of septic shock syndrome caused by S. pneumoniae in an immunocompromised patient despite of vaccination

BACKGROUND AND CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of septic shock syndrome caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in a patient who had undergone splenectomy due to an autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS), which is characterized as a dysfunction of immunoregulation. Although the patient was va...

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Autores principales: Singer, Josef, Testori, Christoph, Schellongowski, Peter, Handisurya, Ammon, Müller, Catharina, Reitter, Eva-Maria, Graninger, Wolfgang, Knöbl, Paul, Staudinger, Thomas, Winkler, Stefan, Thalhammer, Florian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5480414/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28641577
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2481-y

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