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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 +4 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 +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 +4 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease and genome databases [PDF]
The Lancet Microbe, 2021 Jens Karlsson +2 more
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Underestimation of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Italy [PDF]
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2016 Knowing the incidence of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is essential for planning appropriate vaccination policies. However, IMD may be underestimated because of misdiagnosis or insufficiently sensitive laboratory methods. Using a national molecular surveillance register, we assessed the number of cases misdiagnosed and diagnoses obtained ...
AZZARI, CHIARA +9 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease presenting with tenosynovitis. [PDF]
CMAJKatyukha A +3 more
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Invasive Meningococcal Disease in the Vaccine Era [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018 Infection with the meningococcus is one of the main causes of meningitis and septicaemia worldwide. Humans are the only natural reservoir for the meningococcus which is found primarily as a commensal inhabitant in the nasopharynx in ~10% of adults, and may be found in over 25% of individuals during adolescence.
Simon Nadel, Nelly Ninis
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Global epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease [PDF]
Population Health Metrics, 2013 AbstractNeisseria meningitidisis one of the leading causes of bacterial meningitis globally and can also cause sepsis, pneumonia, and other manifestations. In countries with high endemic rates, the disease burden places an immense strain on the public health system.
Rabab Jafri +12 more
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A severe course of serogroup W meningococcemia in a patient with infantile nephropathic cystinosis
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2020 We present a 9-month old boy with cystinosis admitted to our hospital with the complaints of vomiting, diarrhea and seizure. While he was hospitalized in a pediatric intensive care unit due to worsening of his signs related to cystinosis, within hours ...
Gurkan Bozan +7 more
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