Pneumococcal vaccine failure in an HIV-infected patient with fatal pneumococcal sepsis and HCV-related cirrhosis

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 396-399

  Begemann, M ^a   Policar, M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; HCV; HIV; Isotype 3; Pneumonia; Pneumovax; S. pneumoniae; Sepsis; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LAMIVUDINE; PENICILLIN G; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VANCOMYCIN; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; DEATH; DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FATALITY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEPATITIS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYDRATION; HYPOXEMIA; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLEEN DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VACCINATION; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; FATAL OUTCOME; FIBROSIS; HEPATITIS C; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; SEPSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0034760012     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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