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Invasive meningococcal disease in older adults: current perspectives and call for action. [PDF]

Eur Geriatr Med
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) presents a substantial burden in older adults, usually ineligible for protective immunization. We reviewed clinical epidemiology and current immunization policies to highlight current unmet needs in older adults.
Weil-Olivier C, Taha MK, Leng S, Dinleyici EC, Bonanni P, Moya E, Leischker A, Yezli S.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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, Tanya A. Halse, Kimberlee A. Musser, Danielle Wroblewski, Christopher D. Paddock, Wun-Ju Shieh, Melissa Pasquale-Styles, Irini Scordi-Bello, Paula E. Del Rosso, Don Weiss   +9 more
doaj   +3 more sources

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, Stephen C. Alder, Susan Mottice, A. Peter Catinella, Carrie L. Byington   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Recent increase in atypical presentations of invasive meningococcal disease in France [PDF]

BMC Infect Dis
Background Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) cases declined upon the implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) (social distancing and mask wearing) to control the COVID-19 pandemic but rebounded in 2022 in numbers with genotypical ...
Taha S, Deghmane A, Taha M.
europepmc   +2 more sources

The association of meningococcal disease with influenza in the United States, 1989-2009. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Prior influenza infection is a risk factor for invasive meningococcal disease. Quantifying the fraction of meningococcal disease attributable to influenza could improve understanding of viral-bacterial interaction and indicate additional health benefits ...
Jessica Hartman Jacobs, Cécile Viboud, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Joel Schwartz, Claudia Steiner, Lone Simonsen, Marc Lipsitch   +6 more
doaj   +7 more sources

Invasive meningococcal disease and genome databases [PDF]

The Lancet Microbe, 2021
Jens Karlsson, Hannes Eichner, Edmund Loh   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Invasive meningococcal disease in patients with complement deficiencies: a case series (2008-2017). [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
BACKGROUND: To describe patients with inherited and acquired complement deficiency who developed invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in England over the last decade. METHODS: Public Health England conducts enhanced surveillance of IMD in England.
Bai, X, Borrow, R, Campbell, H, Clark, SA, Gray, S, Ladhani, SN, Lekshmi, A, Lucidarme, J, Parikh, S, Patel, S, Ramsay, M, Walker, A, Willerton, L   +12 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease presenting with tenosynovitis. [PDF]

CMAJ
Katyukha A, Sukhdeo S, Andany N, Lefkowitz A.   +3 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Clonal analysis of meningococci during a 26 year period prior to the introduction of meningococcal serogroup C vaccines [PDF]

, 2015
Meningococcal disease remains a public health burden in the UK and elsewhere. Invasive Neisseria meningitidis, isolated in Scotland between 1972 and 1998, were characterised retrospectively to examine the serogroup and clonal structure of the circulating
Clarke, Stuart C., Davies, Robert L., Diggle, Mathew A., Sullivan, Christopher B.   +3 more
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Risk of Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Preterm Infants. [PDF]

Open Forum Infect Dis
Abstract Background Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is most common in the first year of life. We hypothesized that preterm infants may have a higher risk of IMD and more severe disease than term infants.
Calvert A, Campbell H, Heath PT, Jones CE, Le Doare K, Mensah A, Ladhani S.   +6 more
europepmc   +4 more sources