[Fulminant pneumococcal sepsis in a 13 months old child with congenital asplenia].
Asplenia may predispose to fulminant invasive infections caused by encapsulated bacteria. We observed a 13 months old child with (so far unknown) congenital familiar asplenia, who died from pneumococcal sepsis. General vaccination of all infants with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine may prevent this disease, which is associated with a high rate of mortality in infants with asplenia.
Hummler
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Sektion Neonatologie und pädiatrische Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Ulm. helmut.hummler@medizin.uni-ulm.de
Pohlandt
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Essig
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D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011008:Pneumococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D012307:Risk Factors; D018805:Sepsis / Q000401:mortality; D013154:Spleen / Q000002:abnormalities*