Abstract
To the Editor: Recent reports1,2 have focused attention on the potential threat of drug-resistant pneumococci and on the need for immunization of patients at high risk of serious pneumococcal infection. In the United States, where multiply resistant pneumococci are not a problem at present,3 splenectomy in children is considered to be one of the important indications for immunization with polyvalent pneumococcal vaccine.4 We wish to document a fatal case of pneumococcal bacteremia accompanied by disseminated intravascular coagulopathy in a splenectomized child who had received the vaccine two months before the onset of his terminal infection. In this six-year-old boy splenectomy.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 203-204 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
Volume | 300 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 25 1979 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Medicine(all)