Fatal pneumococcal sepsis following flex
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Elie Picard; Yechiel Schlesinger; Shmuel Goldberg; Shepard Schwartz; Eitan Kerem
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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A 5-month-old boy who suffered from a leukocyte chemotactic defect underwent flexible bronchoscopy for persistent right upper lobe atelectasis and tachypnea. Ten hours after the procedure he developed fulminant sepsis, and he died 16 hrs after bronchoscopy. Streptococcus pneumoniae (serotype 23) gre