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Novel hypercapsulation RNA thermosensor variants in Neisseria meningitidis and their association with invasive meningococcal disease: a genetic and phenotypic investigation and molecular epidemiological study

The Lancet Microbe, 2020
Summary: Background: Neisseria meningitidis is the causative agent of invasive meningococcal disease and the polysaccharide capsule is one of its major virulence factors.
Jens Karlsson, MSc, Hannes Eichner, MSc, Cecilia Andersson, BSc, Susanne Jacobsson, PhD, Edmund Loh, PhD   +4 more
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Vaccinating Italian infants with a new multicomponent vaccine (Bexsero®) against meningococcal B disease: A cost-effectiveness analysis [PDF]

, 2016
This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.The European Medicines Agency has approved a multicomponent serogroup B meningococcal vaccine (Bexsero®) for use in individuals of 2 months of age and older.
Amicizia, D, Bonanni, P, de Waure, C, Gasparini, R, Icardi, G, Landa, P, Lucioni, C, Panatto, D, Ricciardi, W, Tanfani, E, Testi, A   +10 more
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Emergence and genomic diversification of a virulent serogroup W:ST-2881(CC175) Neisseria meningitidis clone in the African meningitis belt. [PDF]

, 2017
Countries of the African 'meningitis belt' are susceptible to meningococcal meningitis outbreaks. While in the past major epidemics have been primarily caused by serogroup A meningococci, W strains are currently responsible for most of the cases.
Abdul Sater, Mohamad R, Bentley, Stephen D, Dangy, Jean-Pierre, Hamid, Abdul-Wahab M, Harris, Simon R, Hauser, Julia, Hodgson, Abraham, Junghanss, Thomas, Lamelas, Araceli, Parkhill, Julian, Pluschke, Gerd, Röltgen, Katharina, Sie, Ali   +12 more
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Cerebral perfusion in invasive meningococcal disease [PDF]

BMJ, 2008
I am surprised that the SIGN guidelines (and therefore this summary of them1) make no mention of the importance of adequate cerebral perfusion in those with invasive meningococcal disease. Cerebral perfusion pressure is the difference between the mean arterial pressure (which is usually low from the associated hypotensive shock) and …
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Implementation of MenACWY vaccination because of ongoing increase in serogroup W invasive meningococcal disease, the Netherlands, 2018. [PDF]

, 2018
The annual incidence rate of serogroup W invasive meningococcal disease in the Netherlands increased from 
Antonise-Kamp, Laura, de Melker, Hester E, Knol, Mirjam J, Ruijs, Wilhelmina Lm, van der Ende, Arie   +4 more
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Effectiveness of antibiotics given before admission in reducing mortality from meningococcal disease: systematic review. [PDF]

, 2006
OBJECTIVE: To review the evidence for effectiveness of treatment with antibiotics before admission in reducing case fatality from meningococcal disease. DESIGN: Systematic review. DATA SOURCES: Cochrane register of trials and systematic reviews, database
Hahné, Susan J M, Charlett, André, Purcell, Bernadette, Samuelsson, Susanne, Camaroni, Ivonne, Ehrhard, Ingrid, Heuberger, Sigrid, Santamaria, Maria, Stuart, James M   +8 more
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Deficiency of the eighth component of complement associated with recurrent meningococcal meningitis: case report and literature review

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
The authors report a case of deficiency of the eighth component of complement in a young adult with a history of three episodes of meningitis; one of them proved to be meningococcal.
Daniela Dornelles Rosa, Alessandro C. Pasqualotto, Maurício de Quadros, Sérgio Henrique Prezzi   +3 more
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Fatal meningococcal meningitis in a HIV-infected patient caused by serogroup C Neisseria meningitidis belonging to the non-hypervirulent clonal complex ST-60 (cc60)

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011
Meningococcal strains belonging to clonal complex cc60 are not associated with hypervirulent lineages and were never reported as causing disease in Latin American countries.
Claudia Ferreira de Andrade, Biologist, Denise Cotrim da Cunha, MD, Veronica Cavalcanti, Biologist, Ivano de Filippis   +3 more
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Iowa Health Focus, September 2004 [PDF]

, 2004
Monthly newsletter for the Iowa Department of Public ...

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The important lessons lurking in the history of meningococcal epidemiology

Expert Review of Vaccines
Introduction The epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD), a rare but potentially fatal illness, is typically described as unpredictable and subject to sporadic outbreaks.Areas covered Meningococcal epidemiology and vaccine use during the ...
Ray Borrow, Jamie Findlow
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