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Invasive meningococcal disease [PDF]

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2013
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is a major public health and continues to cause substantial mortality and morbidity. Serotype C is the most frequent in Brazil.
Vanessa L. Strelow, Jose E. Vidal
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Invasive meningococcal disease and travel

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2010
Summary: The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease varies geographically and in time and the risk of acquiring the disease varies regionally, as well as with living conditions and behavior.
Ziad A. Memish, Anette Goubeaud, Michael Bröker, Claudius Malerczyk, Atef M. Shibl   +4 more
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Preventing invasive meningococcal disease in early infancy

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
This review considers the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in infants, to examine and critique meningococcal disease prevention in this population through vaccination.
Jessica Presa, Lidia Serra, Catherine Weil-Olivier, Laura York   +3 more
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Association of secondhand smoke exposure with pediatric invasive bacterial disease and bacterial carriage: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

PLoS Medicine, 2010
BackgroundA number of epidemiologic studies have observed an association between secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure and pediatric invasive bacterial disease (IBD) but the evidence has not been systematically reviewed.
Chien-Chang Lee, Nicole A Middaugh, Stephen R C Howie, Majid Ezzati   +3 more
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Postmortem Diagnosis of Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2014
We diagnosed invasive meningococcal disease by using immunohistochemical staining of embalmed tissue and PCR of vitreous humor from 2 men in New York City.
Alison D. Ridpath, Tanya A. Halse, Kimberlee A. Musser, Danielle Wroblewski, Christopher D. Paddock, Wun-Ju Shieh, Melissa Pasquale-Styles, Irini Scordi-Bello, Paula E. Del Rosso, Don Weiss   +9 more
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Invasive Meningococcal Disease, Utah, 1995–2005

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007
Trends in invasive meningococcal disease in Utah during 1995–2005 have differed substantially from US trends in incidence rate and serogroup and age distributions.
Rachelle B. Boulton, Stephen C. Alder, Susan Mottice, A. Peter Catinella, Carrie L. Byington   +4 more
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The association of meningococcal disease with influenza in the United States, 1989-2009. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Prior influenza infection is a risk factor for invasive meningococcal disease. Quantifying the fraction of meningococcal disease attributable to influenza could improve understanding of viral-bacterial interaction and indicate additional health benefits ...
Jessica Hartman Jacobs, Cécile Viboud, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Joel Schwartz, Claudia Steiner, Lone Simonsen, Marc Lipsitch   +6 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease and genome databases [PDF]

The Lancet Microbe, 2021
Jens Karlsson, Hannes Eichner, Edmund Loh   +2 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease presenting with tenosynovitis. [PDF]

CMAJ
Katyukha A, Sukhdeo S, Andany N, Lefkowitz A.   +3 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Clonal analysis of meningococci during a 26 year period prior to the introduction of meningococcal serogroup C vaccines [PDF]

, 2015
Meningococcal disease remains a public health burden in the UK and elsewhere. Invasive Neisseria meningitidis, isolated in Scotland between 1972 and 1998, were characterised retrospectively to examine the serogroup and clonal structure of the circulating
Clarke, Stuart C., Davies, Robert L., Diggle, Mathew A., Sullivan, Christopher B.   +3 more
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