Successful intervention for overwhelming postsplenectomy infection caused by non-vaccine pneumococcal serotype 23A

The spleen plays an important role in the body’s immune defense against invasive infections, particularly those caused by encapsulated bacteria. Encapsulated bacterial infection in asplenic patients is a medical emergency called overwhelming postsplenectomy infection (OPSI) and has a mortality rate...

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Autores principales: Kojima, Yuichi, Ikeda, Kazuna, Matsumura, Akihiro, Shimohama, Shun, Chang, Bin, Yoshida, Takayuki, Hamada, Kunio, Ito, Akihide, Ito, Toshiki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202049/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32395252
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omaa018

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