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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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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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Critical appraisal of a quadrivalent CRM197 conjugate vaccine against meningococcal serogroups A, C W-135 and Y (Menveo®) in the context of treatment and prevention of invasive disease

Infection and Drug Resistance, 2011
Michael Bröker, Brian Cooper, Lisa M DeTora, Jeffrey J StoddardGlobal Medical Affairs, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Marburg, Germany, and Cambridge, MA, USAAbstract: Worldwide, invasive meningococcal disease affects about 500,000 people ...
Bröker M, Cooper B, DeTora LM, Stoddard JJ   +3 more
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Risk of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Preterm Infants. [PDF]

Open Forum Infect Dis
Abstract Background Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is most common in the first year of life. We hypothesized that preterm infants may have a higher risk of IMD and more severe disease than term infants.
Calvert A, Campbell H, Heath PT, Jones CE, Le Doare K, Mensah A, Ladhani S.   +6 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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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
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Population-based study of influenza and invasive meningococcal disease among Greek children during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ Paediatrics Open, 2022
Background Aiming to the containment of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, governments worldwide have implemented a series of non-pharmaceutical interventions.
Theoklis Zaoutis, Vassiliki Papaevangelou, Danai Ktena, Eleni Kourkouni, Flora Kontopidou, Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou, Kalliopi Papadima, Theano Georgakopoulou, Ioanna Magaziotou, Anastasia Andreopoulou, Georgina Tzanakaki   +10 more
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