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Published on: September 11, 2020
Antibiotic resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and hemolytic uremic syndrome
Gonca Barit1, Abdullah Sakarcan
1Department of Pediatrics, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Unlabelled:
The hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is the most common cause of acute renal failure in young children and most often follows an episode of gastroenteritis caused by an enterohemorrhagic strain of Escherichia coli (O157:H7). HUS induced by Streptococcus pneumoniae (SP) is rare. We report an 18-month-old patient who presented with HUS associated with SP resistant to penicillin and cephalosporins.
Conclusion:
Despite a protracted course including renal failure requiring 15 days of peritoneal dialysis, her kidney function completely recovered.
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