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Introduction Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) primarily causes disease in young children and adolescents and can cause long-term disability. Many countries are considering implementation of meningococcal B and/or meningococcal ACWY vaccines to ...
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Societal costs due to meningococcal disease: a national registry-based study
Nina Gustafsson,1 Sandra Elkjær Stallknecht,1 Mette Skovdal,2 Peter Bo Poulsen,3 Lars Østergaard4 1Incentive, Holte, Denmark; 2Vaccines, Pfizer Denmark, Ballerup, Denmark; 3Health and Value, Pfizer Denmark, Ballerup, Denmark; 4Department of ...
Gustafsson N +4 more
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The present article describes clinical signs of meningococcal disease. It justifies the necessity of its vaccine prevention. The article provides with the historical data on the evolution of inoculants from corpuscular inactivated vaccines to modern ...
M. V. Abramtseva +2 more
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Atypical meningococcal meningitis with rashless presentation: A case report
Meningococcal disease is the major health problem in developing world. The clinical presentation is varied, ranging from transient fever and bacteraemia to fulminant disease with death ensuing within hours of the onset of clinical symptoms. The classical
Sunita, Manpreet Singh, Dheeraj Kapoor
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Sanford R KimmelUniversity of Toledo College of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Toledo, OH, USAAbstract: Invasive meningococcal disease occurs worldwide causing an estimated 50,000–135,000 deaths each year in addition to significant ...
Sanford R Kimmel
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Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by Neisseria meningitidis is characterized by high mortality and morbidity. While IMD incidence peaks in both infants and adolescents/young adults, carriage rates are often highest in the latter age groups ...
Cynthia Burman +5 more
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Michael Bröker, Brian Cooper, Lisa M DeTora, Jeffrey J StoddardGlobal Medical Affairs, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Marburg, Germany, and Cambridge, MA, USAAbstract: Worldwide, invasive meningococcal disease affects about 500,000 people ...
Bröker M +3 more
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Current safety issues with quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines
Invasive meningococcal disease, although rare, can present as sudden, life-threatening disease with high risk of mortality or severe long-term sequelae.
Tanya R. Myers, Michael M. McNeil
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Infectious diseases: meningococcal disease
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 ...
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The article describes the clinical case of meningococcal infections, complicated with the development of reactive arthritis. It highlights possible pathogenetic mechanisms of aseptic inflammation in combined meningococcal and herpesvirus infections.
N. V. Skripchenko +3 more
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