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Objective: To review the epidemiology and clinical course of facial cellulitis attributable to Streptococcus pneumoniae in children.
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The cervico- facial cellulitis during pregnancy is a serious pathology that can be life-threatening to the mother and or child.
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Most were previously healthy; among the 6 with underlying disease were the only 2 patients with bilateral facial cellulitis.
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Ninety-six percent of the serotypes causing facial cellulitis in this series are included in the heptavalent-conjugated pneumococcal vaccine recently licensed in the United States.
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The objective of this work was to analyze the predisposing factors, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of cervico- facial cellulitis on pregnancies and to determine maternal-fetal prognosis.