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Case Reports: Rare disease
Purpura fulminans due to Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteraemia in an unsplectomised immunocompetent adult without primary hypocomplementaemia

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  • Swaminathan Perinkulam Sathyanarayanan Internal Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mohammad Ahmed Internal Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USADepartment of Internal Medicine, Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Anthony Hericks Internal Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USADivision of Pulmonary Critical Care, Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Swaminathan Perinkulam Sathyanarayanan; ashwin1694{at}gmail.com
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Perinkulam Sathyanarayanan S, Ahmed M, Hericks A
Purpura fulminans due to Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteraemia in an unsplectomised immunocompetent adult without primary hypocomplementaemia
BMJ Case Reports CP 2022;15:e249514.

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  • Accepted May 5, 2022
  • First published May 19, 2022.
Online issue publication 
January 24, 2024

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