Ventricular empyema presenting as a complication of pneumococcal meningitis in a toddler

• Main Authors: Parthasarathi Muthusamy (Author), Madhumitha Chellappan Subramaniam (Author), Ayyammal Palaniappan (Author), Ponnusamy Shanmugam (Author), Balasenthilkumaran Meda Rabindranath (Author), Balavinoth Ramakrishnan (Author), Ramakrishnan Tirupur Chinnappan Ramalingam (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is a major pathogen in the pediatric population causing life-threatening infections ranging from pneumonia and meningitis to sepsis, and it is now a vaccine-preventable infection. Recently, pneumococcus is emerging as a cause of multidrug-resistant infection, resistant to ≥3...