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Meningococcus, this famous unknown

Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2021
Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus) is a Gram-negative bacterium responsible for two devastating forms of invasive diseases: purpura fulminans and meningitis.
dos Santos Souza, Isabel, Ziveri, Jason, Bouzinba-Segard, Haniaa, Morand, Philippe, Bourdoulous, Sandrine   +4 more
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Critical appraisal of a quadrivalent CRM197 conjugate vaccine against meningococcal serogroups A, C W-135 and Y (Menveo®) in the context of treatment and prevention of invasive disease

Infection and Drug Resistance, 2011
Michael Bröker, Brian Cooper, Lisa M DeTora, Jeffrey J StoddardGlobal Medical Affairs, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Marburg, Germany, and Cambridge, MA, USAAbstract: Worldwide, invasive meningococcal disease affects about 500,000 people ...
Bröker M, Cooper B, DeTora LM, Stoddard JJ   +3 more
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Recent increased incidence of invasive serogroup W meningococcal disease: A retrospective observational study

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objectives: Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W incidence has increased. Mortality associated with serogroup W has been higher than for other serogroups.
Nichlas Hovmand, Lene Fogt Lundbo, Gitte Kronborg, Sidsel Skou Voss, Håkon Sandholdt, Steen Hoffmann, Palle Valentiner-Branth, Thomas Benfield   +7 more
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Invasive Meningococcal Disease in Adolescents and Young Adults [PDF]

JAMA, 2001
Incidence of invasive meningococcal disease has increased recently in persons aged 15 through 24 years.To characterize meningococcal infection in adolescents and young adults in Maryland during the 1990s.Population-based surveillance study for meningococcal disease from January 1, 1990, through December 31, 1999, in Maryland.Maryland residents ...
L H, Harrison, M A, Pass, A B, Mendelsohn, M, Egri, N E, Rosenstein, A, Bustamante, J, Razeq, J C, Roche   +7 more
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Meningocoxemic Septic Shock; A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Journal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, 2021
Meningococcal infections that have high mortality and morbidity in childhood and progress rapidly are an important health problem. It is one of the most important emergent diseases of the infectious diseases. Neisseria meningitidis has 13 serogroups.
Murat Özkale, Naime Gökay, Dinçer Yıldızdaş   +2 more
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Effectiveness of Meningococcal B Vaccine against Endemic Hypervirulent Neisseria meningitidis W Strain, England [PDF]

, 2016
Serum samples from children immunized with a meningococcal serogroup B vaccine demonstrated potent serum bactericidal antibody activity against the hypervirulent Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W strain circulating in England. The recent introduction of
Alessia Biolchi, Araya, Campbell, Christensen, Comanducci, Frosi, Gossger, Hahné, Isaacs, Jamie Findlow, Jay Lucidarme, Kazim Beebeejaun, Ladhani, Ladhani, Mariagrazia Pizza, Mary E. Ramsay, Marzia Monica Giuliani, Parent du Châtelet, Ray Borrow, Read, Shamez N. Ladhani, Vogel   +21 more
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Unusual Initial Abdominal Presentations of Invasive Meningococcal Disease [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2018
Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is recognized as septicemia and/or meningitis. However, early symptoms may vary and are frequently nonspecific. Early abdominal presentations have been increasingly described. We aimed to explore a large cohort of patients with initial abdominal presentations for association with particular meningococcal strains ...
Deghmane, Ala-Eddine, Guiddir, Tamazoust, Gros, Marion, Hong, Eva, Terrade, Aude, Denizon, Mélanie, Taha, Muhamed-Kheir   +6 more
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A space-time conditional intensity model for infectious disease occurence [PDF]

, 2010
A novel point process model continuous in space-time is proposed for infectious disease data. Modelling is based on the conditional intensity function (CIF) and extends an additive-multiplicative CIF model previously proposed for discrete space epidemic ...
Assunçáo, Daley, Diggle, Diggle, Diggle, Elias, Hawkes, Held, Höhle, Höhle, Höhle, Höhle, Jensen, Jewell, Mohler, Neal, Nocedal, Ogata, Ogata, Ogata, Peng, Rathbun, Rosenstein, Scheel, Stroud, Trotter, Zangwill   +26 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease presenting as Henoch-Sch�nlein purpura

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, 2004
Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) is an acute systemic form of vasculitis that has been associated with a number of viral and bacterial infections. Described here are the cases of two children with invasive meningococcal disease who presented with clinical and laboratory findings typical of HSP.
Tsolia, MN, Fretzayas, A, Georgouli, H, Tzanakaki, G, Fessatou, S, Liapi-Adamidou, G, Constantopoulos, A   +6 more
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Suspected cluster of Neisseria meningitidis W invasive disease in an elderly care home: do new laboratory methods aid public health action? United Kingdom, 2015. [PDF]

, 2019
In 2015, a suspected cluster of two invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) cases of serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis (MenW) occurred in elderly care home residents in England over 7 months; case investigations followed United Kingdom guidance.
Borrow, R, Campbell, H, Foster, K, Gray, S, Ladhani, S, Lawler, J, Lucidarme, J, Parikh, S, Smith, L   +8 more
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