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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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Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society: Medical Sciences, 2022 Meningococcal infection in the form of sporadic cases or minor group outbreaks, mostly among children, is registered in all countries of the world. The disease has a wide range of clinical manifestations – from an asymptomatic bacterial carriage and ...
Oleksandra Prokopiv +3 more
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Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2011 Meningococcal strains belonging to clonal complex cc60 are not associated with hypervirulent lineages and were never reported as causing disease in Latin American countries.
Claudia Ferreira de Andrade, Biologist +3 more
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Microorganisms, 2020 The description of invasive meningococcal disease that is provoked by Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) is frequently restricted to meningitis. However, a wide panel of clinical presentations can be encountered including severe forms with intense inflammatory ...
Michael Levy +2 more
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Pathogens, 2021 Neisseria meningitidis causes a devastating invasive disease but is also a normal colonizer of the human nasopharynx. Due to the rapid progression of disease, the best tool to protect individuals against meningococcal infections is immunization. Clinical
Elissa G. Currie, Scott D. Gray-Owen
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BMC Medicine, 2020 Background The recent emergence of strains belonging to the meningococcal serogroup W (MenW) sequence type-11 clonal complex and descending from the South American sub-lineage (MenW:cc11/SA) has caused significant shifts in the epidemiology of ...
Matthieu Domenech de Cellès +4 more
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A Double Whammy Pneumonia: The First Reported Case of Concurrent and SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2022 Meningococcal pneumonia (MP) is a rare manifestation of meningococcal disease. The MP was first described in 1907 when Neisseria meningitidis (NM) isolates were identified in sputum samples obtained from soldiers with pneumonia.
Michael Valdez MD +6 more
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Differences in IgG Fc Glycosylation Are Associated with Outcome of Pediatric Meningococcal Sepsis
mBio, 2018 Pediatric meningococcal sepsis often results in morbidity and/or death, especially in young children. Our understanding of the reasons why young children are more susceptible to both the meningococcal infection itself and a more fulminant course of the ...
Noortje de Haan +7 more
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A Comprehensive Review of Meningococcal Disease Burden in India
Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 2020 Introduction Meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis has a high case fatality rate. Of 12 distinct serogroups, A, B, C, W-135 (W) and Y cause the majority of infections.
Ashok Kumar Dutta +4 more
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