Jean Gaschignard, Bérengère Koehl, David C Rees, Elena Rincón-López, Anna Vanderfaeillie, Alice Pascault, Slimane Allali, Elena Cela, Marie-Hélène Odièvre, Isabelle Hau, Marisa Oliveira, Cécile Guillaumat, Valentine Brousse, Mariane de Montalembert, Maria Luisa Navarro Gómez, Naima Beldjoudi, Eduardo Jesus Bardon-Cancho, Cristina Epalza
BACKGROUND: Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at a high risk of invasive bacterial infections (IBI). Universal penicillin prophylaxis and vaccination, especially against Streptococcus pneumoniae, have deeply changed its epidemiology. Analysis of IBI in children with SCD in a post-13-valent pneumococcal vaccine era is limited. METHODS: Twenty-eight pediatric hospitals from 5 European countries retrospectively collected IBI episodes in SCD children aged 1 month to 18 years between 2014 and 2019...
October 1, 2023: Pediatrics