id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-255357-oar2pttf Kijima, Emi Kawasaki Disease and Invasive Pneumococcal Infection 2020-06-17 .txt text/plain 539 41 51 title: Kawasaki Disease and Invasive Pneumococcal Infection In the morning, she developed five out of six major KD symptoms (except for lip findings), and intravenous immunoglobulin (2 g/kg; IVIG) and oral aspirin (30 mg/kg/day) were started according to the definite diagnosis of KD with a Kobayashi score of 4 [2] . The blood culture became positive for GPC in the evening, and intravenous ampicillin (ABPC) was added to cover enterococcus infection, empirically. The follow-up blood culture performed on the same day was found to be negative later. In our case, KD was unresponsive to IVIG in spite of proper antibiotic treatment for IPD, and KD was well responsive to PSL instead. Furthermore, when once induced, KD requires specific treatment for itself, even if the triggering infection such as IPD as in our case is controlled by proper antibiotic therapy. Kawasaki disease associated with pneumococcal infection. Impact of D-dimer on the resistance to intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in Kawasaki disease GSL ./cache/cord-255357-oar2pttf.txt ./txt/cord-255357-oar2pttf.txt