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Journal of Pediatric Neurology 2007; 05(02): 149-151
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1557376
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart – New York

Low dose oral penicillin prophylaxis to PANDAS

Yukio Kuramochi
a   Department of Pediatrics, Shizuoka Medical Center, Shizuoka, Japan
b   Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
,
Shinya Koizumi
a   Department of Pediatrics, Shizuoka Medical Center, Shizuoka, Japan
b   Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
,
Toshisada Morita
a   Department of Pediatrics, Shizuoka Medical Center, Shizuoka, Japan
,
Masanori Watanabe
c   Watanabe Clinic, Shizuoka, Japan
,
Kiyoshi Hashimoto
b   Department of Pediatrics, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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09 November 2006

18 December 2006

Publication Date:
30 July 2015 (online)

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Abstract

We have been prescribing low dose oral penicillin to an 8-year-old boy with pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections. Neither symptom exacerbation nor increase in antistreptolysin O titer was observed after this prophylaxis. The significance of penicillin prophylaxis for the control of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infection exacerbation is discussed in light of the current literature.

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Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections - penicillin prophylaxis