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Climate Regimes, El Nino-Southern Oscillation and Meningococcal Meningitis Epidemics

Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
Meningoccocal meningitis is a major public health problem that kills thousands annuallyin Africa, Europe, North and South America. Occurrence is, however, highest during thedry seasons in Sahel Africa.
Olusegun Steven Ayodele Oluwole
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Meningococcal meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa: the case for mass and routine vaccination with available polysaccharide vaccines

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2003
Endemic and epidemic group A meningococcal meningitis remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, despite the availability of the safe and inexpensive group A meningococcal polysaccharide vaccine, which is protective at all ...
Robbins John B., Schneerson Rachel, Gotschlich Emil C., Mohammed Idris, Nasidi Abdulsalami, Chippaux Jean-Philippe, Bernardino Luis, Maiga Moussa A.   +7 more
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A case report of multiple cerebral abscess formation complicating serogroup B Neisseria meningitidis meningitis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
Background Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) presenting with meningitis causes significant mortality and morbidity. Suppurative complications of serogroup B meningococcal sepsis are rare and necessitate urgent multidisciplinary management to mitigate ...
Ciara O’Connor, Aedin Collins, Eilish Twomey, Conor Hensey, John Caird, Patrick J. Gavin   +5 more
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Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Patient with Meningococcal Meningitis

Oman Medical Journal, 2018
Meningococcal meningitis has a wide range of neurological complications. However, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) following infection with Neisseria meningitidis is uncommon.
Sudhir Kumar Palat Chirakkara1*, , Abdul Rahim Ali Bakhsh2, , Aparna Kalyani Pariyadath3 and , Balamurugan Rathinavelu   +3 more
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Meningococcal meningitis [PDF]

BMJ, 1988
A S, Sohal, V R, Rao
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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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Neisseria meningitidis presenting as acute abdomen and recurrent reactive pericarditis

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2016
Meningococcal meningitis is a well established potential fatal infection characterized by fever, headache, petechial rash, and vomiting in the majority of cases.
Karolina Akinosoglou, Angelos Alexopoulos, Nikolaos Koutsogiannis, Charalampos Gogos, Aleksandra Lekkou   +4 more
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Issue Information

Journal of General and Family Medicine, Volume 26, Issue 6, Page 499-500, November 2025.
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Plenary Abstracts Session & Oral Presentations

HemaSphere, Volume 9, Issue S1, June 2025.
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Poster Sessions

HemaSphere, Volume 9, Issue S1, June 2025.
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