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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, NIEDDU, FRANCESCO, MORIONDO, MARIA, INDOLFI, GIUSEPPE, Canessa, Clementina, RICCI, SILVIA, BIANCHI, LEILA, SERRANTI, DANIELE, POGGI, GIOVANNI MARIA, RESTI, MASSIMO   +9 more
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Control of invasive meningococcal disease [PDF]

International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, 2016
Neisseria meningitidis still leads to deaths and severe disability in children, adolescents and adults. Six different capsular groups of N. meningitidis cause invasive meningococcal disease in the form of meningitis and septicaemia in humans. Although conjugate meningococcal vaccines have been developed to provide protection against four of the ...
Marshall, H, Wang, B, Wesselingh, S, Snape, M, Pollard, A   +4 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 Öcal, Ener Çagri Dinleyici
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Surveillance of invasive meningococcal disease in the Czech Republic

Eurosurveillance, 2004
Routine notification of invasive meningococcal disease has a long tradition in the Czech Republic: mortality data are available from 1921 and morbidity data from 1943. The collection of Neisseria meningitidis strains kept in the NRL for Meningococcal Infections in Prague dates from 1970 onwards, and represents more than 3500 strains isolated from ...
P Kriz
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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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Meningococcal disease in children in Merseyside, England : a 31 year descriptive study [PDF]

, 2011
Meningococcal disease (MCD) is the leading infectious cause of death in early childhood in the United Kingdom, making it a public health priority. MCD most commonly presents as meningococcal meningitis (MM), septicaemia (MS), or as a combination of the ...
Hart, C. Anthony, Marzouk, Omnia, Paize, Fauzia, Taylor-Robinson, David, Makwana, Nick, Carrol, Enitan D., Baines, Paul B., Harris, David, Hackett, Scott J., Riordan, F. Andrew I., Thomson, Alistair P. J., Diggle, Peter J., Stanton, Michelle C.   +12 more
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Clinically Suspected Invasive Meningococcal Disease Presenting With Purpura Fulminans-Like Rash, Septic Shock, Multiorgan Dysfunction, and Recovery From ARDS in a Previously Healthy Child. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Clinically suspected invasive meningococcal disease can deteriorate rapidly in previously well children. Prompt recognition of the petechial–purpuric rash with shock, early empirical antibiotics, and aggressive supportive pediatric intensive care are cornerstones of management as multiorgan dysfunction and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ...
Omar S, Alsweis A, Khaled A, Nabresi N, Qatu M, Qahwash Y, Jallad M.   +6 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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Fatal Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome due to Neisseria meningitidis group B in a paediatric patient during the phone consultation era

Pediatria Polska, 2023
Owing to uncharacteristic initial symptoms and rapid progression, invasive meningococcal disease is still a challenge to diagnose and treat, even in high-income countries.
Marta Serafin, Ewa Czerwińska, Marian Koźbiał, Mariusz Leszczyński, Leszek Szenborn   +4 more
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Meningococcal disease: changes in epidemiology and prevention

Clinical Epidemiology, 2012
Qiuzhi Chang,1 Yih-Ling Tzeng,2 David S Stephens1–31Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 2Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 3Laboratories of Microbial Pathogenesis, Department
Chang Q, Tzeng YL, Stephens DS
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