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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.
Anju Dinkar, Jitendra Singh, Virendra Atam, Krishna Kumar Sahani, Munna Lal Patel   +4 more
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Spatial dynamics of meningococcal meningitis in Niger: observed patterns in comparison with measles [PDF]

, 2011
SUMMARYThroughout the African meningitis belt, meningococcal meningitis outbreaks occur only during the dry season. Measles in Niger exhibits similar seasonality, where increased population density during the dry season probably escalates measles ...
N. BHARTI, Broutin, H, Tatem, A.J., Bharti, N., Ferrari, M.J., A. J. TATEM, Tatem, A J, H. BROUTIN, Grais, R.F., M. J. FERRARI, R. F. GRAIS, B. T. GRENFELL, Grenfell, B T, Djibo, A., Djibo, A, Grais, R F, Ferrari, M J, Bharti, N, A. DJIBO, Grenfell, Bryan T., Grenfell, B.T., Bharti, Nita, Broutin, H.   +22 more
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Sibling familial risk ratio of meningococcal disease in UK Caucasians. [PDF]

, 2003
To quantify the host genetic component of meningococcal disease (MD) susceptibility, the sibling risk ratio (lambdaS) was calculated as the ratio of observed MD cases among 845 siblings of 443 UK Caucasian cases to that expected, calculated from age ...
Haralambous, E, Hibberd, ML, Levin, M, Weiss, HA, Radalowicz, A, Booy, R   +5 more
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Meningococcal pneumonia: a review

Pneumonia, 2019
Background Although Neisseria meningitidis is one of the major causes of meningitis, meningococcal pneumonia is the most common non-neurological organ disease caused by this pathogen.
Charles Feldman, Ronald Anderson
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Meningococcal disease in one soldier patient: case report from Vietnam

Vietnam Journal of Science, Technology and Engineering, 2021
Meningococcal disease is caused by an infection with Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis) bacteria, which is responsible for two major forms of the disease including meningitis and/or septicaemia. N.
Nguyen Thanh Viet, Nguyen Minh Nam, Nguyen Vu Trung, Do Tuan Anh, Hoang Van Tong   +4 more
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Epstein-Barr virus but not cytomegalovirus is associated with reduced vaccine antibody responses in Gambian infants. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) are persistent herpesviruses that have various immunomodulatory effects on their hosts. Both viruses are usually acquired in infancy in Sub-Saharan Africa, a region where childhood vaccines ...
Ebrima S Touray, Whittle, H., Miles David J. C., Kaye, Steve, Melba S Palmero, Roberts, E., Ojuola, Olubukola, Palmero Melba S., Ojuola, O, Kaye Steve, Duah, NO, Mohammed, N.I., Cotten, M., Marianne van der Sande, Waight Pauline, Rowland-Jones, S., Cotten, M, Touay, Ebrima S., Holder, B., Cotten Matthew, Mohammed, NI, van der Sande Marianne, Whittle, H, Crozier, Sarah, Roberts, Elishia, Rowland-Jones, Sarah, Crozier, S., Miles, David J.C., Palmero, Melba S., Ojuola Olubukola, Waight, P., Touray, ES, Beth Holder, Roberts Elishia, Nuredin Ibrahim Mohammed, Nancy O Duah, Sarah Crozier, Touray, E.S., Hilton Whittle, Mohammed, Nuredin Ibrahim, Elishia Roberts, Sarah Rowland-Jones, Ebrima S. Touray, Touray, Ebrima S, van der Sande, M., Nancy O. Duah, Matthew Cotten, Whittle Hilton, Miles, David J C, Steve Kaye, Miles, David JC, van der Sande, Marianne, Kaye, S, Ojuola, O., David J C Miles, Mohammed Nuredin Ibrahim, Holder Beth, Palmero, M.S., Duah Nancy O., Melba S. Palmero, Cotten, Matthew, Duah, Nancy O, Palmero, Melba S, Whittle, Hilton, Miles, DJC, Rowland-Jones Sarah, Miles, D.J., Kaye, S., Holder, B, Olubukola Ojuola, David J. C. Miles, Touray Ebrima S., Duah, Nancy O., Palmero, MS, Duah, N.O., Waight, Pauline, Roberts, E, Rowland-Jones, S, Holder, Beth, Waight, P, Crozier, S, Pauline Waight, Crozier Sarah, Van der Sande, M   +83 more
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Meningococcal infection in children: factors influencing outcome

Журнал инфектологии, 2019
Generalized forms of meningococcal infection are characterized by high risk of complication and fatal outcomes. In Russian Federation, 2016, meningococcal infection was the second most common cause of pediatric deaths (25%) due to infectious diseases ...
O. V. Samodova, E. A. Krieger, L. V. Titova, O. Yu. Leonteva   +3 more
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Meningococcal Urethritis: an additional Source of Meningococcal Disease?

Эпидемиология и вакцинопрофилактика, 2020
Background. Beginning with the middle of the XX century some observations about cases of meningococcal urethritis have appeared. The number of articles for such subjects has promptly increased in the last decade of XXI.
N. N. Kostyukova, V. A. Behalo
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Continuing effectiveness of serogroup A meningococcal conjugate vaccine, Chad, 2013. [PDF]

, 2015
In 2011, vaccination with a serogroup A meningococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine was implemented in 3 of 23 regions in Chad. Cases of meningitis declined dramatically in vaccinated areas, but an epidemic continued in the rest of Chad.
Greenwood, Brian M, Ngadoua, C, Kadidja Gamougam, Dominique A. Caugant, Trotter, Caroline L, Toralta, J, Greenwood, B M, Ngadoua, Cyriaque, Fermon, Florence, Manigart, Olivier, Daugla, D M, Olivier Manigart, Daugla, Doumagoum M, Florence Fermon, Page, A-L, Caugant, D A, Djingarey, M H, Doumagoum M. Daugla, Fermon, F, James M. Stuart, Page, Anne-Laure, Trotter, C L, Caugant, Dominique A, Djingarey, Mamoudou H, Anne-Laure Page, Mamoudou Djingarey, Gamougam, Kadidja, Cyriaque Ngadoua, Toralta, Jacques, Stuart, J M, Stuart, James M, Gamougam, K, Manigart, O, Caroline L. Trotter, Jacques Toralta, Brian M. Greenwood   +35 more
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Human genetics of meningococcal infections [PDF]

, 2020
Neisseria meningitidis is a leading cause of bacterial septicaemia and meningitis worldwide. Meningococcal disease is rare but can be life threatening with a tendency to affect children.
Sancho-Shimizu, Vanessa, Levin, Michael, Herberg, Jethro A, Hodeib, Stephanie   +3 more
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