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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Publicado no:Oxf Med Case Reports
Main Authors: Kojima, Yuichi, Ikeda, Kazuna, Matsumura, Akihiro, Shimohama, Shun, Chang, Bin, Yoshida, Takayuki, Hamada, Kunio, Ito, Akihide, Ito, Toshiki
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7202049/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32395252
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/omcr/omaa018
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