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Windscreen wiper fluid without added screenwash in motor vehicles: a newly identified risk factor for Legionnaires' disease. [PDF]

, 2010
A source of infection is rarely identified for sporadic cases of Legionnaires' disease. We found that professional drivers are five times more commonly represented among community acquired sporadic cases in England and Wales than expected.
Isabel Oliver, Kafatos, George, Wallensten, Anders, Anders Wallensten, Katherine Ricketts, George Kafatos, Stuart, James M, Ricketts, Katherine, Carol Joseph, Stuart, James M., Oliver, Isabel, Joseph, Carol, James M. Stuart   +12 more
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Association of secondhand smoke exposure with pediatric invasive bacterial disease and bacterial carriage: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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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Statistically significant risk factors for invasive meningococcal disease (univariate analysis).

, 2016
Statistically significant risk factors for invasive meningococcal disease (univariate analysis).
Maria Theodoridou (33087), Antonios Katsioulis (830992), Vassiliki Syriopoulou (3161793), Christos Hadjichristodoulou (33082), George Mpalaouras (3161802), George Rachiotis (710798), Kalliopi Theodoridou (291428), Vasiliki Vasilopoulou (3161799), Georgia Tzanakaki (3161796)   +8 more
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The important lessons lurking in the history of meningococcal epidemiology

Expert Review of Vaccines
Introduction The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), a rare but potentially fatal illness, is typically described as unpredictable and subject to sporadic outbreaks.Areas covered Meningococcal epidemiology and vaccine use during the ...
Ray Borrow, Jamie Findlow
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Fatal meningococcal meningitis in a HIV-infected patient caused by serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis belonging to the non-hypervirulent clonal complex ST-60 (cc60)

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011
Meningococcal strains belonging to clonal complex cc60 are not associated with hypervirulent lineages and were never reported as causing disease in Latin American countries.
Claudia Ferreira de Andrade, Biologist, Denise Cotrim da Cunha, MD, Veronica Cavalcanti, Biologist, Ivano de Filippis   +3 more
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Early diagnosis model for meningitis supports public health decision making.

, 2011
OBJECTIVE: To develop a predictive model for rapid differential diagnosis of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia to support public health decisions on chemoprophylaxis for contacts.
Ejidokun, Oluwatoyin O, Meltzer, Margie, Neville Q. Verlander, Fraser, Graham, Meltzer, M, Oluwatoyin O. Ejidokun, Rehman, Yasmin, Verlander, Neville Q, Ninis, Nelly, Margie Meltzer, Nelly Ninis, Muir, Peter, Fraser, G, Verlander, NQ, Rehman, Y, Close, RM, James M. Stuart, Graham Fraser, Peter Muir, Muir, P, Stuart, James M, Stuart, JM, Rebecca M. Close, Yasmin Rehman, Close, Rebecca M, Ejidokun, OO   +25 more
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Deficiency of the eighth component of complement associated with recurrent meningococcal meningitis: case report and literature review

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
The authors report a case of deficiency of the eighth component of complement in a young adult with a history of three episodes of meningitis; one of them proved to be meningococcal.
Daniela Dornelles Rosa, Alessandro C. Pasqualotto, Maurício de Quadros, Sérgio Henrique Prezzi   +3 more
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Variation in incidence of pneumococcal and meningococcal disease across Europe

, 2007
The incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease and invasive meningococcal disease has been shown to vary at least ten-fold between European countries.
J Roberts, M Chandra, J Stuart, R Pebody
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Meningococcal Disease [PDF]

Meningococcal disease is a rare, but very serious bacterial illness. It can cause long-term problems, like loss of limbs or brain damage, and be deadly.

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Preventing Meningococcal Disease in US Adolescents and Young Adults Through Vaccination

Infectious Diseases and Therapy
In 2022, experts convened under the name Advancing Strategies to Prevent Meningococcal Disease (ARTEMIS) to gather insights on issues related to invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) and meningococcal vaccination in the US. Discussions regarding successes,
Jessica Presa, Ruth Carrico, Jaime E. Fergie, Stephanie Hanenberg, Gary S. Marshall, Kaitlyn Rivard, Jana Shaw, Gregory D. Zimet, Paula Peyrani, Alejandro Cane   +9 more
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