Monteiro, Adriano de Souza Santos; Oliveira, Eduardo Gomes de; Santos, Djanilson Barbosa dos; Cordeiro, Soraia Machado; Couto, Ricardo David; Couto, Fábio David
(Journal of Medical Microbiology, Microbiology SocietyBrasil, 2021)
Introduction: Sickle cell disease (SCD) children have a high susceptibility to pneumococcal infection. For this reason, they are routinely immunized with pneumococcal vaccines and use antibiotic prophylaxis (AP). ...