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      <JournalTitle>Frontiers in Medical Case Reports</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 1; Issue 5</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
      <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage>
      <Season>(Sep-Oct, 2020)</Season>
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      <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue>
      <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA>
      <PubDate>
        <Year>-0001</Year>
        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>30</Day>
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      <ArticleType>Medical Case Reports</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Newborn Endogenous Endophthalmitis Caused by Streptococcus Pneumoniae</ArticleTitle>
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      <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage>
      <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA>
      <FirstPage>1</FirstPage>
      <LastPage>8</LastPage>
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        <Author>
          <FirstName>Marina Laura</FirstName>
          <LastName>Rodríguez-Rojo</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
          <Affiliation/>
          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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          <FirstName>Enrique Alberto</FirstName>
          <LastName>Criado-Vega</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
          <Affiliation/>
          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
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          <FirstName>Marta</FirstName>
          <LastName>Illán-Ramos</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
          <Affiliation/>
          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
          <ORCID/>
          <FirstName>Juan</FirstName>
          <LastName>Donate-Lopez</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
          <ORCID/>
          <FirstName>Jose</FirstName>
          <LastName>Martinez-Orgado</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
          <Affiliation/>
          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
          <ORCID/>
          <FirstName>Jose Tomás</FirstName>
          <LastName>Ramos-Amador</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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      <Abstract>A case of a six days of life term newborn with suspicion of sepsis with meningeal involvement is described, in whom positivity for pneumococcal antigen in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was positive, associated with endophthalmitis with positivity for pneumococcal polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in vitreous humor. This case is significant because it represents a unique presentation in a neonate of pneumococcal meningitis with endophthalmitis. This case illustrates the importance of maintaining a high index of suspicion of eye involvement in cases of complicated bacterial meningitis and also highlights the utility of bacterial PCR in vitreous humor, as well as pneumococcal antigen testing in CSF as useful diagnostic tools in newborns.</Abstract>
      <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage>
      <Keywords>Case report,Endophthalmitis,Streptococcus pneumoniae,Newborn,Meningitis</Keywords>
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        <Abstract>https://www.jmedicalcasereports.org/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=8149&amp;title=Newborn Endogenous Endophthalmitis Caused by Streptococcus Pneumoniae</Abstract>
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