PMID: 3750399Sep 1, 1986Paper

A fatal pneumococcal infection in a vaccinated 9-year-old child with sickle cell disease

Tropical and Geographical Medicine
M A BabikerM N Chowdhury

Abstract

A fatal case of pneumococcal septicaemia and meningitis is described in a vaccinated nine-year-old Saudi child with sickle cell disease. Non-compliance to prophylactic penicillin might have been the cause of its fatal illness.

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