title: Managing patients with an absent or dysfunctional spleen. Guidelines do not discuss resistance to antibiotics among pneumococci.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lambert
mesh_terms: D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006801:Humans; D010403:Penicillin Resistance; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013156:Splenectomy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D013158:Splenic Diseases / Q000150:complications