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Severe pneumococcal pneumonia following Measles- Mumps- Rubella vaccination / Pneumonie pneumococică severă dezvoltată ca urmare a vaccinării Rujeolă-Oreion-Rubeolă Cover

Severe pneumococcal pneumonia following Measles- Mumps- Rubella vaccination / Pneumonie pneumococică severă dezvoltată ca urmare a vaccinării Rujeolă-Oreion-Rubeolă

Open Access
|Oct 2016

Abstract

Hereby, we report a case of severe multi-lobular pneumococcal pneumonia with gangrene requiring pneumonectomy and accompanying septic shock that developed 1 day after a live-attenuated measles-mumps-rubella vaccination in a 58-year old kindergarten teacher.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rrlm-2016-0028 | Journal eISSN: 2284-5623 | Journal ISSN: 1841-6624
Language: English
Page range: 337 - 342
Submitted on: Mar 6, 2016
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Accepted on: Aug 8, 2016
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Published on: Oct 15, 2016
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2016 Orsolya Gál, Mathias W. Pletz, Edith Simona Ianoși, published by Romanian Association of Laboratory Medicine
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