Streptococcus pneumoniae intracranial abscess and post-infectious vasculitis
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Streptococcus Pneumoniae Intracranial Abscess and Post-Infectious Vasculitis
Intracranial abscesses are rare complications of Streptococcus pneumoniae infections, and to our knowledge, there have been no case reports of post-infectious vasculitis developing in such patients. Here we describe the case of a 48-year-old post-splenectomy male who developed post-infectious vasculitis following S. pneumoniae otitis media complicated by mastoiditis, osteomyelitis, meningitis, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infectious Disease Reports
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2036-7449,2036-7430
DOI: 10.4081/idr.2016.6844