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The association of meningococcal disease with influenza in the United States, 1989-2009. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Prior influenza infection is a risk factor for invasive meningococcal disease. Quantifying the fraction of meningococcal disease attributable to influenza could improve understanding of viral-bacterial interaction and indicate additional health benefits ...
Jessica Hartman Jacobs +6 more
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African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2011 The first cases of meningococcal meningitis were described in Geneva in 1805 and in New England in 1806, the causative agent finally being identified by Anton Weichselbaum in 1887.
Alex Koyfman, James Kimo Takayesu
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A space-time conditional intensity model for invasive meningococcal disease occurrence [PDF]
Biometrics 68, 607--616, 2015 A novel point process model continuous in space-time is proposed for quantifying the transmission dynamics of the two most common meningococcal antigenic sequence types observed in Germany 2002-2008. Modelling is based on the conditional intensity function (CIF) which is described by a superposition of additive and multiplicative components.
Assunçáo +26 more
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Prevention of Meningococcal Disease: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of General Practitioners and Primary Care Pediatricians in South Italy [PDF]
VaccinesBackground: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and current practices about prevention of meningococcal disease among general practitioners (GPs) and primary care pediatricians (PCPs) in Italy.
Silvia Angelillo +5 more
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Systemic manifestations in the course of meningococcal disease [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2009 Background/Aim. Meningococcal disease most often manifests itself as meningitis or sepsis. During the course of these diseases, other clinical events sometimes develop such as pneumonia, pericarditis, arthritis, and they are referred to as extrameningeal
Dulović Olga +7 more
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Meningococcal disease in children in Merseyside, England:a 31 year descriptive study [PDF]
, 2011 Meningococcal disease (MCD) is the leading infectious cause of death in early childhood in the United Kingdom, making it a public health priority. MCD most commonly presents as meningococcal meningitis (MM), septicaemia (MS), or as a combination of the ...
Baines, Paul B. +12 more
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Infectious diseases: meningococcal disease [PDF]
Western Journal of Medicine, 2000 This article comes from Clinical Evidence (2000;3:350-357), a new resource for clinicians produced jointly by the BMJ Publishing Group and theAmerican College of Physicians—American Society of Internal Medicine.Clinical Evidence is an extensively peer-reviewed publication that summarizes the best available evidence on the effects of common clinical ...
C. A. Hart
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An overview of the meningococcal disease and impact of the quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine [PDF]
Novel Research in Microbiology Journal, 2021 Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges, which are the three membranes that cover the brain and the spinal cord; which occurs when the fluid surrounding the meninges becomes infected.
Asmaa Alrobai +2 more
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Epidemiological Characteristics of Meningococcal Infection in Moscow
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2020 Aims. The purpose of this study was to identify current epidemiological features of meningococcal infection in Moscow.Materials and methods. Cases of invasive meningococcal disease in Moscow from 2014 to 2018 and the biomaterial from patients with an ...
M. I. Gritsay +3 more
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022 Meningococcal disease is highly transmissible, life-threatening and leaves significant sequelae in survivors. Every year, India, which has a plethora of risk factors for meningococcal disease, reports around 3000 endemic cases.
Anand P. Dubey +4 more
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