Overwhelming postsplenectomy sepsis and trauma: Time to consider revaccination?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1482-1485

  Taylor, Michelle D ^a   Genuit, Thomas ^a   Napolitano, Lena M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ETIOLOGY; GANGRENE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVACCINATION; SEPSIS; SPLEEN; SPLEEN INJURY; SPLENECTOMY; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VACCINATION;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; ETIOLOGY; HUMANS; INJURIES; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SEPSIS; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; VACCINATION;

EID: 33646166303     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000198381.84951.e3     Document Type: Article

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