eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | sickle cell anemia |
| Symptom | C0004623|bacterial infection |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 24678395 | There are limited number of studies describing the usefulness of pct in diagnosis of bacterial infection in patients with sickle cell disease (scd) with conflicting results.4,19,21 moreover, these studies have focused mostly scd patients of europe and usa with a different β-globin gene cluster haplotype and the results may not be applicable to indian sca patients with asian-indian haplotype. |
| PubMedID- 26207314 | We aimed to evaluate the incidence and predictors of bacteremia and bacterial infection in children with sickle cell disease presenting with fever to a district hospital and sickle cell center in london. |
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