Pneumococcal-associated purpura fulminans in a healthy infant

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 528-530

  Noguera, Antoni ^a,b   Fortuny, Clàudia ^a   Pons, Marti ^a   Cambra, Francisco ^a   Palomeque, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistant; Immunocompetent Pneumococcus pneumoniae; Purpura fulminans

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; DOPAMINE; INOTROPIC AGENT; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FACE SURGERY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; FULMINATING PURPURA; GANGRENE; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALAISE; MALE; MONONEUROPATHY; PETECHIA; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASH; SKIN GRAFT; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

CEFOTAXIME; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEVER; FOOT; GANGRENE; HAND; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFANT; ISCHEMIA; MALE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PLASMA; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEPSIS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 4143087138     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000136070.52822.cc     Document Type: Article

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