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Meningococcal Serogroup Y Meningitis Reveals Inborn Factor B Deficiency. [PDF]

Eur J Immunol
We report a novel case of complete complement Factor B deficiency revealed by invasive meningococcal disease. Using combined functional and genetic analyses, we demonstrate that loss of Factor B abolishes alternative pathway activity despite detectable protein levels. These findings provide a mechanistic framework relevant to complement diagnostics and
Bougeard C, Eskander E, Martins PV, Bitan J, Roquigny J, Kyheng C, Guiddir T, Frémeaux-Bacchi V, Gonnin C, ElSissy C.   +9 more
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MENINGOCOCCIC CARRIERS AND MENINGITIS [PDF]

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1919
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Fildes, P., L., Baker S.
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Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia as the sole manifestation of meningococcal meningitis

Libyan Journal of Medicine, 2010
Acute myelopathy with sudden paraplegia is a very rare manifestation of meningococcal meningitis, with only a few cases reported in the literature.
Wanis H. Ibrahim, Osama R. Elalamy, Sanjay H. Doiphode, Hassan Mobyaed, Adham Darweesh   +4 more
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Meningitis epidemics shift in sub-Saharan belt

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018
Meningococcal meningitis (MCM) poses a serious threat to public health in Africa. Epidemics appear irregularly every 5–12 years, especially in the regions across sub-Saharan ‘meningitis belt’. This study investigated the long-term spatiotemporal dynamics
Shi Zhao, Qianying Lin, Daihai He, Lewi Stone   +3 more
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Comparing laboratory surveillance with the notifiable diseases surveillance system in South Africa

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2017
Objective: The aim of this study was to compare laboratory surveillance with the notifiable diseases surveillance system (NDSS) in South Africa. Methods: Data on three tracer notifiable diseases – measles, meningococcal meningitis, and typhoid – were ...
F.G. Benson, A. Musekiwa, L. Blumberg, L.C. Rispel   +3 more
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Clinical Case of Repeated Generalized Infection and Meningitis in Immunocompetent Child

Педиатрическая фармакология, 2021
Background. Meningococcal disease is socially significant, deadly infectious disease characterized by severe and unpredictable course. Clinical case description.
Mariya S. Vedyashkina, Anna M. Dubrovsky, Olga V. Lopatina, Svetlana V. Rychkova   +3 more
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Doença meningocócica: comparação entre formas clínicas Meningococcal disease: comparison between clinical forms

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2007
Visando avaliar formas clínicas da doença meningocócica, foram revistos 201 casos diagnosticados como doença meningocócica, em Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal Fluminense; durante o período de 1971 a 1996, dos quais 185 preencheram os ...
Nádia Stella-Silva, Solange Artimos Oliveira, Keyla Belízia Feldman Marzochi   +2 more
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Incidence, carriage and case-carrier ratios for meningococcal meningitis in the African meningitis belt: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundTo facilitate the interpretation of meningococcal meningitis epidemiology in the "African meningitis belt", we aimed at obtaining serogroup-specific pooled estimates of incidence, carriage and case-carrier ratios for meningococcal meningitis in
Thibaut Koutangni, Halima Boubacar Maïnassara, Judith E Mueller   +2 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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Meningococcic Meningitis [PDF]

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1920
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