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Invasive meningococcal disease without meningitis: a forgotten diagnosis
International Medical Case Reports Journal, 2018 Neisseria meningitidis, a Gram-negative diplococcus, is an uncommon cause of pneumonia. There have been only about 344 cases reported worldwide from 1906 to 2015. To our knowledge, there have been only 3 cases reported in the USA in the past 2 decades. We present a case of a 72-year-old male with a past medical history of severe COPD, obstructive sleep
Saqib Walayat +5 more
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Development of Multi-Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Outbreak Detection of Neisseria meningitidis [PDF]
, 2006 Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of septicemia and meningitis worldwide. Traditional typing methods like pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for identifying outbreaks are subjective and time consuming.
Price, Alicia Anne
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Surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease in Queensland, 2002
Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2003 During 2002, 124 cases of invasive meningococcal disease were notified in Queensland. This was similar to the previous year (n=128). Four (3.2%) of the cases died. Trends by age and serogroup were generally similar to previous years and were consistent with the overall patterns of this disease in Australia. However, an apparent increase in serogroup C,
Robyn E, Pugh +2 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) presenting with meningitis causes significant mortality and morbidity. Suppurative complications of serogroup B meningococcal sepsis are rare and necessitate urgent multidisciplinary management to mitigate ...
Ciara O’Connor +5 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease and HIV coinfection
Communicable Diseases Intelligence, 2001 Three cases of meningococcal disease which occurred over a 3 year period in HIV-infected people living in the Wentworth Health Area of Sydney, Australia, are described. None of the 3 had ever received antiretroviral therapy which may have contributed to development of invasive meningococcal disease. Commun Dis Intell 2001;25:278-279.
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019 Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by Neisseria meningitidis is characterized by high mortality and morbidity. While IMD incidence peaks in both infants and adolescents/young adults, carriage rates are often highest in the latter age groups ...
Cynthia Burman +5 more
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Meningococcal B vaccination : a novel approach [PDF]
, 2017 Meningococcal B disease is associated with a mortality of up to 10% and significant morbidity in survivors. Attempts to produ.ce an effective vaccine based on established methods over several decades, have succeeded in designing vaccines suitable only ...
Attard Montalto, Simon
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Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2008 Sanford R KimmelUniversity of Toledo College of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Toledo, OH, USAAbstract: Invasive meningococcal disease occurs worldwide causing an estimated 50,000–135,000 deaths each year in addition to significant ...
Sanford R Kimmel
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Meningoccocal meningitis complicated with subdural effusion: a report of two infant cases
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2007 Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of invasive bacterial infection in children of all ages. Children less than 1 year of age are at greater risk of invasive disease than older children. In endemic countries, the invasive meningococcal infections are
Victor Perez-Pico,1 Eduardo Llausas-Magana,1 Angel Leon-Ramirez,1 Giordano Perez-Gaxiola,2 and Nidia Leon-Sicairos.3
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[Invasive meningococcal disease--management and treatment].
Przeglad epidemiologiczny, 2012 Invasive meningococcal disease is life threatening disease and in fulminant cases mortality rate may be as high as 70%. Rapid introduction of treatment and monitoring on intensive care unit is crucial for prognosis. The understanding of patomechanism responsible for sepsis development allow to introduce supportive treatment including glicocorticoids ...
Aleksander, Garlicki +2 more
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