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Invasive Pneumococcal and Meningococcal Disease

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2019
This review focuses on current knowledge of the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of invasive pneumococcal (IPD) and meningococcal disease (IMD). IPD decreased significantly with the introduction of effective conjugate vaccines but is on the rise again.
Deirdre, Fitzgerald, Grant W, Waterer
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Invasive meningococcal disease: a disease of the endothelial cells

Trends in Molecular Medicine, 2014
Neisseria meningitidis is an extracellular pathogen, which, once in the bloodstream, has the ability to form microcolonies on the apical surface of endothelia. Pathogen interaction with microvessels is mediated by bacterial type IV pili and two receptors on endothelial cells: CD147 and the β2-adrenoceptor.
Coureuil, Mathieu, Bourdoulous, Sandrine, Marullo, Stefano, Nassif, Xavier   +3 more
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Current methods in the diagnosis of invasive meningococcal disease

Frontiers in Pediatrics
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) remains a significant health concern due to its global distribution, potential for epidemic spread, unpredictable nature, rapid progression, and high mortality rates or permanent sequelae. The global elimination of meningococcal illness via immunization is a primary objective of the World Health Organization's ...
Duygu Nilüfer Öcal, Ener Cagri Dinleyici   +1 more
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Not Only Meningitis but Also Epiglottitis: An Emerging Clinical Presentation of Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Open Forum Infectious Diseases
International audienceThe rebound of invasive meningococcal disease cases in France since the fall of 2022 was accompanied by an increase in adult epiglottitis.
Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Ala-Eddine Deghmane, Samy Taha   +2 more
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Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in Austria 2010

Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 2011
Neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of meningitis and sepsis worldwide. Thus, monitoring the epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is an important public health measure. The National Reference Centre for Meningococci at the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety is operating the laboratory-based surveillance database.IMD ...
Georg, Steindl, Yu-Lun, Liu, Daniela, Schmid, Ulrike, Orendi, Andrea, Kormann-Klement, Sigrid, Heuberger   +5 more
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Clinical progress note: Invasive meningococcal disease

Journal of Hospital Medicine
Abstract Invasive meningococcal disease due to Neisseria meningitidis in the United States has decreased since the late 1990s, leading to fewer practicing clinicians with first‐hand experience in diagnosing and managing of the disease.
Alaina Shine, Erin Chung
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Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Childhood

Pediatrics In Review, 2011
Anne F, Brayer, Sharon G, Humiston
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Risk factors for invasive meningococcal disease: a retrospective analysis of the French national public health insurance database

Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 2021
Gaëlle Nachbaur, Catherine Weil-Olivier, Stéphane Bouee   +2 more
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Be vigilant for invasive meningococcal disease.

The Practitioner, 2014
Neisseria meningitidis is an encapsulated Gram-negative diplococcus which colonises the upper respiratory tract without causing symptoms in up to 25% of the population. At least 13 different serogroups cause invasive meningococcal disease (IND). In the UK serogroup B causes more than 80% of cases of invasive disease. More than 75% of cases occur in the
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