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The changing face of meningococcal infection. [PDF]

Clin Infect Pract, 2021
Menigococcal infection is caused by Neisseria meningitidis, a Gram negative diplococci. Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) is caused by 6 capsular groups. The spectrum of infection is broad, with meningitis and meningococcal sepsis associated with a case fatality of between 4 and 20%.
Knapper F.
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Hydrocephalus and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease in an Adult With Meningococcal Meningitis and Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Fatal Outcome. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Meningococcal meningitis can lead to serious neurological complications such as hydrocephalus directly and contribute to cerebral small vessel disease indirectly, especially in patients with pre‐existing conditions like dilated cardiomyopathy.
Mohamed Y, Mohamed A, Elemam A, Babiker A.   +3 more
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Revealing the molecular signatures of host-pathogen interactions. [PDF]

, 2011
Advances in sequencing technology and genome-wide association studies are now revealing the complex interactions between hosts and pathogen through genomic variation signatures, which arise from evolutionary co ...
C Herdtweck, C Loscos, C Sik-Lányi, F Yan, G Xing, GJ Ward, H Kolivand, H Kolivand, Hoshang Kolivand, J Blinn, J Hensley, K Jacobs, K Kaneda, K Kilteni, K Tadamura, KL Wilson, Kolivand, L Hosek, M Aittala, M Haller, M Kanbara, M Knecht, M Slater, M Sunar, Mohd Shahrizal Sunar, MS Sunar, MZ Shao, N Greene, P Debevec, R Azuma, R Ji, R Ji, R Kittler, R Kittler, R Kittler, R Klassen, R Perez, RC Yeoh, Rongrong Ji, S Gibson, S Lee, T Annen, T Guan, T Naemura, T Nishita, W Donnelly, W Hartmann, W Reeves, Y Dobashi, Y Dobashi, Y Feng, Y Liu, Y Liu, Z Noh   +53 more
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Treatment of meningococcal infection [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2003
Aggressive early treatment of meningococcal disease can reduce mortality. This relies on prompt recognition and treatment of the complications of septicaemia and meningitis, appropriate ongoing intensive care where necessary, and adequate management of multiple organ failure.
S B Welch, S Nadel
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Meningococcal Disease in Patients With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Review of Cases Reported Through Active Surveillance in the United States, 2000-2008. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundAlthough human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is an established risk factor for several bacterial infections, the association between HIV infection and meningococcal disease remains unclear.MethodsExpanded chart reviews were completed ...
Clark, Thomas A, Cohn, Amanda C, Farley, Monica M, Hall, H Irene, Harris, Christine M, Harrison, Lee H, Lee, Adria, Li, Jianmin, Lynfield, Ruth, MacNeil, Jessica R, Miller, Lisa, Nichols, Megin, Petit, Susan, Reingold, Arthur, Schaffner, William, Thomas, Ann, Wu, Henry M, Zell, Elizabeth   +17 more
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Detection of the United States Neisseria meningitidis urethritis clade in the United Kingdom, August and December 2019 - emergence of multiple antibiotic resistance calls for vigilance. [PDF]

, 2020
Since 2015 in the United States (US), the US Neisseria meningitidis urethritis clade (US_NmUC) has caused a large multistate outbreak of urethritis among heterosexual males.
Borrow, R, Brooks, A, Campbell, H, Campbell, L, Fifer, H, Gray, S, Hughes, G, Ladhani, SN, Lekshmi, A, Lucidarme, J, Ramsay, ME, Rayment, M, Schembri, G   +12 more
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Invasive meningococcal disease in the Veneto region of Italy: A capture-recapture analysis for assessing the effectiveness of an integrated surveillance system [PDF]

, 2017
open8noBACKGROUND: Epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis has been changing since the introduction of universal vaccination programmes against meningococcal serogroup C (MenC) and meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) has now become dominant.
Baldo, Vincenzo, Baldovin, Tatjana, Bertoncello, Chiara, Cocchio, Silvia, Furlan, Patrizia, Lazzari, Roberta, Russo, Francesca, Saia, Mario   +7 more
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Human genetics of meningococcal infections [PDF]

Human Genetics, 2020
AbstractNeisseria meningitidisis a leading cause of bacterial septicaemia and meningitis worldwide. Meningococcal disease is rare but can be life threatening with a tendency to affect children. Many studies have investigated the role of human genetics in predisposition toN. meningitidisinfection. These have identified both rare single-gene mutations as
Stephanie Hodeib, Jethro A. Herberg, Michael Levin, Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu   +3 more
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Māori and community news constructions of Meningococcal B: the promotion of a moral obligation to vaccinate [PDF]

, 2007
News media communicate various risks of disease, showcase medical breakthroughs and disseminate texts that both reflect and renegotiate shared cultural understandings of health and illness. Little is known about the role of Māori and community news media
Chamberlain, Kerry, Groot, Shiloh Ann Maree, Hodgetts, Darrin, Karapu, Rolinda, Ngata, Ronald, Nikora, Linda Waimarie   +5 more
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Complement and meningococcal infection. [PDF]

BMJ, 1976
Serum C3 levels were measured in 211 patients with meningococcal disease. Low levels were found in 13 patients with acute meningococcaemia, and complement activation may have contributed to the peripheral circulatory collapse that was responsible for nine deaths.
Brian Greenwood, I I Onyewotu, H. C. Whittle   +2 more
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