Pyogenic sacroiliitis caused by pneumococcal serotype 16F in a child

Pediatr Int. 2019 Dec;61(12):1267-1268. doi: 10.1111/ped.14034. Epub 2019 Dec 8.

Authors

Yuriko Yamada¹, Hiroshi Yamaguchi^{2

3}, Yusuke Ito¹, Noriko Takeuchi⁴, Masashi Kasai¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Disease Medicine, Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Children's Hospital, Hyogo, Japan.
² Department of Neurology, Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Children's Hospital, Hyogo, Japan.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan.
⁴ Department of Infection control, Medical Mycology Research Center, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.

PMID: 31814206
DOI: 10.1111/ped.14034

No abstract available

Keywords: Streptococcus pneumoniae; invasive pneumococcal disease; nonvaccine serotype; pyogenic sacroiliitis; serotype 16F.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Child
Female
Humans
Japan
Pneumococcal Infections / diagnosis
Pneumococcal Infections / drug therapy
Pneumococcal Infections / microbiology*
Pneumococcal Vaccines / therapeutic use
Sacroiliitis / diagnosis
Sacroiliitis / drug therapy
Sacroiliitis / microbiology*
Serogroup*
Streptococcus pneumoniae / genetics
Streptococcus pneumoniae / pathogenicity*
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Pneumococcal Vaccines