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Streptococcus pneumoniae infection in my blood from sinuses. does this mean that i will now be immunocompromised because it was a major infection?
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Not necessarily : We need to know a lot. Even though you're young you may even be a candidate for the pneumonia vaccine. Because the organism that caused the sinusitis is the same one that causes pneumonia. This would be depending more about your total him immunology evaluation
Answered 10/28/2015
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