Fulminant pneumococcal sepsis in two splenectomized patients;Fulminante pneumokokkensepsis bij twee postsplenectomiepatiënten

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 450-454

  De Vries, P A M ^a   Oei Reyners, A K L ^a   Moller A V M ^a   Timens, W ^a   Tulleken, J E ^a   Van Der Werf, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; LABORATORY TEST; PATIENT EDUCATION; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEROTYPING; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VACCINATION;

EID: 0037426014     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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