Primary Bacterial Peritonitis Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae

Primary peritonitis is a rare infection in healthy children, mainly affecting patients with underlying medical disorders. We report a case of primary pneumococcal peritonitis in an immunocompetent 3-year-old boy. Diagnosis was made at laparotomy and cultures of the intra-abdominal pus yielded Strept...

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Autores principales: Maraki, Sofia, Moraitis, Panagiotis, Barbagadakis, Sophia, Vlachakis, Ioannis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8213084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194180
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_197_20
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author Maraki, Sofia
Moraitis, Panagiotis
Barbagadakis, Sophia
Vlachakis, Ioannis
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description Primary peritonitis is a rare infection in healthy children, mainly affecting patients with underlying medical disorders. We report a case of primary pneumococcal peritonitis in an immunocompetent 3-year-old boy. Diagnosis was made at laparotomy and cultures of the intra-abdominal pus yielded Streptococcus pneumoniae. Timely antibiotic treatment administered resulted in complete resolution of the infection.
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spelling pubmed-82130842021-06-29 Primary Bacterial Peritonitis Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae Maraki, Sofia Moraitis, Panagiotis Barbagadakis, Sophia Vlachakis, Ioannis J Glob Infect Dis Case Report Primary peritonitis is a rare infection in healthy children, mainly affecting patients with underlying medical disorders. We report a case of primary pneumococcal peritonitis in an immunocompetent 3-year-old boy. Diagnosis was made at laparotomy and cultures of the intra-abdominal pus yielded Streptococcus pneumoniae. Timely antibiotic treatment administered resulted in complete resolution of the infection. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8213084/ /pubmed/34194180 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jgid.jgid_197_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Global Infectious Diseases https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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