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Pneumococcal purpura fulminans in asplenic or hyposplenic patients: a French multicenter exposed-unexposed retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Pneumococcal infections remain the main cause of overwhelming post-splenectomy infections, and purpura fulminans may develop in almost 20% of patients with overwhelming post-splenectomy infection. We aimed at describing the impact of asplenia/hyposplenia on the clinical features and the...

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Autores principales: Contou, Damien, Coudroy, Rémi, Colin, Gwenhaël, Tadié, Jean-Marc, Cour, Martin, Sonneville, Romain, Mekontso Dessap, Armand, de Prost, Nicolas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7045371/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32102696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-2769-y