PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | alcohol abuse |
| Phenotype | C0004623|bacterial infection |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 21602669 | Objective: granulocytopenia frequently occurs in alcohol abusers with severe bacterial infection, which strongly correlates with poor clinical outcome. |
| PubMedID- 23579940 | In fact, alcohol abusers with severe bacterial infection often present with abnormally low granulocyte levels (i.e., granulocytopenia), which in preclinical and clinical studies was associated with increased mortality (perlino and rimland 1985). |
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