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An overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia
Emergency Nurse, 2009This article provides an overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia, which can have devastating effects. Nurses working in acute and primary care need to be able to recognise the causes and symptoms of these conditions, and have up-to-date knowledge of treatment, prevention and potential after-effects.
Claire Donovan, Jane Blewitt
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NEONATAL MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1977To the Editor.— Jones et al reported a case of fatal Neisseria meningitidis meningitis in a 2-week-old female infant associated with colonization of the mother's cervix (at 36 weeks' gestation) and throat (postpartum) with the same organism (236:2652, 1976).
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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1937
Since 1931 there have been at the Harriet Lane Home twenty-eight cases of infection with the suipestifer bacillus. Almost all the patients were Negro children. Only three deaths occurred. The source of the infection is yet unknown, and it is interesting that several of the patients were nursing infants.
M. M. Ravitch, J. A. Washington
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Since 1931 there have been at the Harriet Lane Home twenty-eight cases of infection with the suipestifer bacillus. Almost all the patients were Negro children. Only three deaths occurred. The source of the infection is yet unknown, and it is interesting that several of the patients were nursing infants.
M. M. Ravitch, J. A. Washington
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The Diagnosis of Meningococcal Meningitis
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1987To the Editor.— That the presence of petechiae is a useful predictor of meningococcal meningitis, 1 differentiating it from other types of purulent meningitis, validates one of the earliest names of the disease, "petechial fever." Petechiae associated with meningococcal meningitis occur during the meningococcemic stage and are caused by the plugging ...
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Epidemiology of meningococcal meningitis in Belgium
Journal of Infection, 1981The results of a sero-epidemiological study of an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Belgium are reported. This epidemic, which commenced in 1969, reached its peak incidence (five cases per 100 000 of the population) in 1971 and 1972. Thereafter the incidence of disease decreased and, currently, has fallen to normal inter-epidemic proportions (one ...
S. De Maeyer, G. Reginster, J.-M. Seba
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East African medical journal, 1996
Meningococcal meningitis has been recognised as serious problem for almost 200 years. In Africa the disease occurs in epidemics periodically during the hot and dry weather in the "meningitis belt" and in east Africa, which is outside this belt the epidemics tend to occur during the cold and dry months. The infection is mainly transmitted from person to
Bhatt, KM,, Bhatt, SM,, Mirza, NB
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Meningococcal meningitis has been recognised as serious problem for almost 200 years. In Africa the disease occurs in epidemics periodically during the hot and dry weather in the "meningitis belt" and in east Africa, which is outside this belt the epidemics tend to occur during the cold and dry months. The infection is mainly transmitted from person to
Bhatt, KM,, Bhatt, SM,, Mirza, NB
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“ECSTASY” AND MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS
Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, 1994Prasad, N. +4 more
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