Invasive Streptococcus intermedius Infections in Children: Two Cases from a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Unit in Italy
Piero Veronese, Simone Cella, Alessandra Giacometti, Irene Lapetina, Valentina Maffini, Marco Pappalardo, Monica Rubini, Maria Beatrice Ruozi, Icilio Dodi, Jens Kreth, Deborah Anderson · 2024
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Piero Veronese and co-authors report two child cases in 2024 of deep spread from a mouth germ that can turn grave. The germ tends to form pus-filled lumps in the chest, brain, or soft tissue. Reports of such spread in children have grown in recent years.
One child had a lump in the liver. The other had sinus spread that reached the ear bones, the throat, and the chest, with clots in key veins. Both got strong drugs fast and had the pus drained by surgery. Both healed in full. The cases warn doctors to think of this germ early when a child shows deep, spreading lumps.
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| CREATOR | Piero Veronese, Simone Cella, Alessandra Giacometti, Irene Lapetina, Valentina Maffini, Marco Pappalardo, Monica Rubini, Maria Beatrice Ruozi, Icilio Dodi, Jens Kreth, Deborah Anderson |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 25 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |