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Life After Invasive Meningococcal Disease: Insights from Survivors and Their Caregivers

Infectious Diseases and Therapy
Introduction Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) has a low incidence but is a life-threatening illness that is preventable via vaccination. Even with treatment, up to 10–15% of cases are fatal, and many survivors may experience severe long-term sequelae.
Oscar Herrera-Restrepo, Nuzhat Afroz, Eliazar Sabater Cabrera, Matthew Reaney, France Ginchereau Sowell, Ramiya Kumar, Alicia Stillman, Patti Wukovits, Mariana Rodrigues, Sofia B. Pinto, Zeki Kocaata, Obinna Onwude   +11 more
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Symptomatic Female Genital Tract Infections Due to Neisseria meningitidis in Athens, Greece

Diagnostics, 2021
Neisseria meningitidis is considered as an obligate human pathogen and can cause life-threatening diseases like meningitis and/or septicaemia. Occasionally, it can be recovered from infections outside the bloodstream or central nervous system, like ...
Anastasios Tsakalos, Athanasia Xirogianni, Georgia Ekonomou, Anastasia Papandreou, Efstratios Prokopiou, Eleni Vagiakou, Georgina Tzanakaki   +6 more
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[Meningitis (I)--differential diagnosis; aseptic and chronic meningitis]. [PDF]

, 1999
Meningitis is the most common serious manifestation of infection of the central nervous system. Inflammatory involvement of the subarachnoid space with meningeal irritation leads to the classical triad of headache, fever, and meningism, and to a ...
Leib, Stephen, Täuber, Martin G.
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Continuing effectiveness of serogroup A meningococcal conjugate vaccine, Chad, 2013. [PDF]

, 2015
In 2011, vaccination with a serogroup A meningococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine was implemented in 3 of 23 regions in Chad. Cases of meningitis declined dramatically in vaccinated areas, but an epidemic continued in the rest of Chad.
Greenwood, Brian M, Ngadoua, C, Kadidja Gamougam, Dominique A. Caugant, Trotter, Caroline L, Toralta, J, Greenwood, B M, Ngadoua, Cyriaque, Fermon, Florence, Manigart, Olivier, Daugla, D M, Olivier Manigart, Daugla, Doumagoum M, Florence Fermon, Page, A-L, Caugant, D A, Djingarey, M H, Doumagoum M. Daugla, Fermon, F, James M. Stuart, Page, Anne-Laure, Trotter, C L, Caugant, Dominique A, Djingarey, Mamoudou H, Anne-Laure Page, Mamoudou Djingarey, Gamougam, Kadidja, Cyriaque Ngadoua, Toralta, Jacques, Stuart, J M, Stuart, James M, Gamougam, K, Manigart, O, Caroline L. Trotter, Jacques Toralta, Brian M. Greenwood   +35 more
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Characteristics of Haemophilus influenzae Isolates Responsible for Invasive Infections in Poland in 2018–2023

Infectious Diseases and Therapy
Introduction Haemophilus influenzae is a human-specific Gram-negative bacterium responsible for respiratory tract infection, sepsis, and meningitis. The study aimed to investigate the epidemiology, serotype distribution, and mechanisms of beta-lactam ...
Marlena Kiedrowska, Kinga Błaszczyk, Agnieszka Gołębiewska, Waleria Hryniewicz, Alicja Kuch, Patrycja Ronkiewicz, Izabela Wróbel-Pawelczyk, Anna Skoczyńska   +7 more
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Molecular characterization of invasive meningococcal isolates in Burkina Faso as the relative importance of serogroups X and W increases, 2008–2012

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A disease in Burkina Faso has greatly decreased following introduction of a meningococcal A conjugate vaccine in 2010, yet other serogroups continue to pose a risk of life-threatening disease. Capsule switching
Adam C. Retchless, Malika Congo-Ouédraogo, Dinanibè Kambiré, Jeni Vuong, Alex Chen, Fang Hu, Absetou Ky Ba, Abdoul-Salam Ouédraogo, Soumeya Hema-Ouangraoua, Jaymin C. Patel, Rasmata Ouédraogo Traoré, Lassana Sangaré, Xin Wang   +12 more
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Evolution and neutralization escape of the SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86 subvariant

Nature Communications, 2023
Omicron BA.2.86 subvariant differs from Omicron BA.2 as well as recently circulating variants by over 30 mutations in the spike protein alone. Here we report on the isolation of the live BA.2.86 subvariant from a diagnostic swab collected in South Africa
Khadija Khan, Gila Lustig, Cornelius Römer, Kajal Reedoy, Zesuliwe Jule, Farina Karim, Yashica Ganga, Mallory Bernstein, Zainab Baig, Laurelle Jackson, Boitshoko Mahlangu, Anele Mnguni, Ayanda Nzimande, Nadine Stock, Dikeledi Kekana, Buhle Ntozini, Cindy van Deventer, Terry Marshall, Nithendra Manickchund, Bernadett I. Gosnell, Richard J. Lessells, Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S. Abdool Karim, Mahomed-Yunus S. Moosa, Tulio de Oliveira, Anne von Gottberg, Nicole Wolter, Richard A. Neher, Alex Sigal   +28 more
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INFLUENZAL MENINGITIS [PDF]

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1922
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Coccidioidal Meningitis [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2006
Residents of the area now occupied by the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico have had to deal with coccidioidomycosis and complicating meningitis for >1500 years. The hundredth anniversary of the reporting of disseminated coccidioidomycosis has just passed.
Ellie J. C. Goldstein, Royce H. Johnson, Hans E. Einstein   +2 more
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Meningitis in infancy in England and Wales: follow up at age 5 years. [PDF]

, 2001
OBJECTIVE: To describe important sequelae occurring among a cohort of children aged 5 years who had had meningitis during the first year of life and who had been identified by a prospective national study of meningitis in infancy in England and Wales ...
Hurley, R, de Louvois, J, Halket, S, Harvey, D, Bedford, H, Peckham, C   +5 more
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