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J Rheumatol
; 14(6): 1177-80, 1987 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-3437427
ABSTRACT
Streptococcal pneumoniae septicemia was responsible for the deaths of 3 patients with chronic systemic lupus erythematosus. The absence of a spleen likely contributed to sepsis in 2 patients. One patient had been immunized with 14-valent pneumococcal vaccine with a doubling of serum antibody concentrations at one month to all vaccine capsular polysaccharide types except for Types 1 and 12. The patient died 74 months after immunization of pneumococcal Type 1 sepsis.