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[Primary meningococcal arthritis]. [PDF]

Rev Esp Quimioter, 2021
La artritis meningocócica primaria (AMP) es una forma poco habitual de enfermedad meningocócica, definida como la presencia de artritis séptica aguda sin ningún otro signo de meningitis o sepsis meningocócica.
Erviti Machain E, Aguinaga Pérez A, Navascués Ortega A, Ezpeleta Baquedano C.   +3 more
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Tuberculous meningitis: new tools and new approaches required [version 1; peer review: not peer reviewed] [PDF]

, 2019
Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of tuberculosis and causes widespread mortality and morbidity. Understanding of the epidemiology and pathogenesis is incomplete, and the optimal diagnosis and treatment are poorly defined.
Thwaites, Guy, International Tuberculous Meningitis Research Consortium, Seddon, James   +2 more
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Bacterial Meningitis [PDF]

, 2021
This timely collection of expert papers draws attention to the global burden of meningitis and the challenges faced by the WHO’s roadmap to defeat meningitis by 2030.

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Estudi experimental del tractament de la meningitis pneumocòcica produïda per soques resistents a cefalosporines de tercera generació. Virulència, eficàcia i resposta inflamatòria [PDF]

, 2006
[cat] La meningitis pneumocòcica és una malaltia associada a una elevada mortalitat (20-40) i a l'aparició de seqüeles neurològiques en un 30% dels pacients, nens i adults, que sobreviuen.
Ribes Miravet, Sandra
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Meningococcal and pneumococcal meningitis in Northern Ghana [PDF]

, 2008
Despite improvements in technology, treatments and understanding of how bacterial meningitis develops, the disease remains a potentially life-threatening emergency capable of causing significant morbidity and mortality. N. meningitidis, S.
Forgor, Abdulai Adams
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Environmental risk and meningitis epidemics in Africa. [PDF]

, 2003
Epidemics of meningococcal meningitis occur in areas with particular environmental characteristics. We present evidence that the relationship between the environment and the location of these epidemics is quantifiable and propose a model based on ...
Stephen J. Connor, Anna M. Molesworth, Molesworth, Anna M., Connor, Stephen J, Connor, Stephen J., Thomson, Madeleine C., Cuevas, Luis E, Morse, Andrew P., Molesworth, Anna M, Andrew P. Morse, Luis E. Cuevas, Thomson, Madeleine C, Morse, Andrew P, Madeleine C. Thomson, Cuevas, Luis   +14 more
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Treatment of cryptococcal meningitis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) remains a leading cause of death for HIV-infected individuals in sub-Saharan Africa. Improved treatment strategies are needed if individuals are to benefit from the increasing availability of antiretroviral ...
Martin Dedicoat, Josephine V J Lightowler, Portia Mutevedzi, Lightowler Josephine V. J., Richard J Lessells, Newell, Marie-Louise, Marie-Louise Newell, Lightowler, Josephine VJ, Cooke, Graham S, Cooke Graham S., Mutevedzi Portia, Lessells Richard J., Mutevedzi, Portia, Lessells, Richard J, Dedicoat Martin, Dedicoat, Martin, Graham S Cooke, Newell Marie-Louise   +17 more
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Doença meningocócica e meningite Meningococcal disease and meningitis

Jornal de Pediatria, 2007
OBJETIVO: Revisar a literatura pertinente ao diagnóstico e tratamento de doença meningocócica (DM). FONTES DOS DADOS: Revisão não-sistemática da literatura médica através de busca na base de dados MEDLINE usando os seguintes termos: meningocócico, choque
Ricardo G. Branco, Carolina F. Amoretti, Robert C. Tasker   +2 more
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Meningococcal disease by infectious bacteria in Ecuador

Revista Información Científica, 2022
Introduction: meningitis can affect at any age and healthy individuals; it´s the inflammation of the meninges caused by the infection with pyogenic bacteria.
Jhoy German Redroban-Venegas, Vanessa Stefania Tamami-Chela, Alfonso Iruma-González   +2 more
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Complement levels in Brazilian children during and after meningococcal meningitis Níveis de complemento em crianças brasileiras durante e após meningite meningocócica

Clinics, 2005
PURPOSE: To evaluate the functional activity of the classical and alternative pathways of the complement system and the levels of C3, C4, and factor B during the first episode of meningococcal infection and during the convalescence period.
Pérsio Roxo Júnior, Virgínia Paes Leme Ferriani, José Eduardo Teixeira, José Elpídio Barbosa   +3 more
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