Article
Outcomes of Pneumococcal Disease in Patients With B-Cell and Hematological Neoplasms: A Retrospective Cohort Study
2026-02-27
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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background:</bold> <italic>Streptococcus pneumoniae</italic> remains a major cause of pneumonia, sepsis, and meningitis, posing particular risk to immunocompromised adults. Patients with hematologic malignancies especially B-cell neoplasms experience profound humoral immune dysfunction and treatment-related B-cell depletion, predisposing them to invasive pneumococcal disease (...
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- c0f02b14-4ad8-5738-afd1-a2798f365eaf
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8727386/v1
