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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 +4 more
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Assessment of acute headache in adults - what the general physician needs to know. [PDF]
, 2018 Headache is common. Up to 5% of attendances to emergency departments and acute medical units are due to headache. Headache is classified as either primary (eg migraine, cluster headache) or secondary to another cause (eg meningitis, subarachnoid ...
Agrawal +9 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 +3 more
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Vaccination in emergencies. [PDF]
, 1999 Nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are the main actors of vaccine delivery during complex humanitarian emergencies such as large population displacements.
Paquet, C
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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 +3 more
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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 +3 more
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Clonal waves of Neisseria colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt: eight- year longitudinal study in northern Ghana. [PDF]
PLoS Medicine, 2007 The Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana lies in the African "meningitis belt" where epidemics of meningococcal meningitis have been reoccurring every eight to 12 years for the last 100 years.
Julia Leimkugel +8 more
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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 +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Meningococcal septicaemia reported in an immunocompetent adult: A Case Report
Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Meningococcal meningitis is caused by the Gram negative diplococcus, Neisseria meningitidis. It is characterized by nonspecific symptoms of fever and constitutional symptoms followed by septic shock and meningitis.
S. Puthra +3 more
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