Prevention of rare diseases: how revolutionary techniques can help vulnerable individuals—the example of serogroup B meningococcal infection [PDF]
Therapeutic Advances in Vaccines, 2015 E. David McIntosh +4 more
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Impact of host factors and invasive meningococci on bacterial adhesion, proliferation, primary nasal epithelial barrier function, and immune response [PDF]
Microbiology SpectrumNeisseria meningitidis colonizes the human upper airway mucosa, which can progress into invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) upon breaching the epithelial barrier.
Daan W. Arends +6 more
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Self Mutilating Behaviour in Severe Meningococcal Infection; An Interesting Association [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Neisseria meningitidis most commonly manifests as asymptomatic colonization in the nasopharynx of healthy adolescents and adults. It may rarely present as invasive disease which may be either bacterial meningitis or meningococcal septicaemia.
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Lactobacillus paracasei feeding improves the control of secondary experimental meningococcal infection in flu-infected mice. [PDF]
BMC Infect Dis, 2018 Belkacem N, Bourdet-Sicard R, Taha MK.
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Thrombosis and meningococcal infection rates in pegcetacoplan-treated patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria in the clinical trial and postmarketing settings. [PDF]
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Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 1999 The frequency of myocarditis associated with meningococcal disease in children was reported only in two autopsied series (United States and South Africa).
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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 ...
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World Experience in the Use Serogroup B Meningococcal Vaccines (literature review)
Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2022 Relevance. The success of vaccine prophylaxis of meningococcal infection depends on the composition and properties of vaccine preparations and the strict implementation of recommendations on vaccine prophylaxis tactics by the territorial epidemiological ...
I. S. Koroleva, M. A. Koroleva
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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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Meningococcal Vaccination Rates Among People With a New Diagnosis of HIV Infection in the US
JAMA Network Open, 2022 Key Points Question How many people with a new diagnosis of HIV infection—who are at increased risk of meningococcal disease—receive the recommended meningococcal A, C, W, Y (MenACWY) vaccination in the US?
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