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Antibiotics for preventing meningococcal infections
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2004Meningococcal disease is a contagious bacterial disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis). Household contacts have the highest documented risk of the disease during the first seven days of a case being detected. Prophylaxis is, therefore, considered for those in close contact with people with a meningococcal infection and in ...
A, Fraser +3 more
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Meningococcal infection in children [PDF]
Irish Journal of Medical Science, 1988 TWO hundred and seventy five cases of meningococcal meningitis and/or septicaemia treated at the Children’s Hospital Temple Street, Dublin between January 1970 and December 1986 were retrospectively reviewed. Peak incidence was in 1981 (50 cases) and these cases were reviewed in greater detail.
K. Noordin, Denis Gill
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Meningococcal Infections in Children
New England Journal of Medicine, 1958THE clinical evaluation of new antibacterial agents has resulted in varied recommendations for treatment of meningococcal infection.1 2 3 4 Clinical response to sulfonamides5 6 7 is superior to that with penicillin,8 9 10 11 12 13 and it has also been demonstrated that chloramphenicol3 and the tetracyclines14 are effective against this organism.
Merl J. Carson, Richard Koch
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Antibiotics for preventing meningococcal infections.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2011BACKGROUND Meningococcal disease is a contagious bacterial infection caused by Neisseria meningitidis (N. meningitidis). Household contacts have the highest risk of contracting the disease during the first week of a case being detected.
Anca Zalmanovici Trestioreanu +4 more
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Factors affecting outcome in meningococcal infections.
A M A Journal of Diseases of Children, 1991A prognostic score for evaluating meningococcal infections in patients consists of the following five features that indicate a poor prognosis: onset of petechiae within 12 hours of presentation; shock; normal or low peripheral leukocyte count; normal or ...
Louis J. Tesoro, S. Selbst
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Pachymeningitis after meningococcal infection
The Lancet, 2013Department of Paediatrics and Infectious Disease (J Toubiana PhD, C Heilbronner MD, Prof D Gendrel MD), Department of Paediatrics and Neurology (C Gitiaux MD), Department of Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (M Oualha MD), and Study Centre for Primary Immunodefi ciencies (C Picard PhD), Necker Hospital, Descartes University, Paris, France; Infection ...
Toubiana, Julie +8 more
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Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1985
Antigenic diversity among and within strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis has complicated studies of the pathogenesis of these strains and obstructed vaccine development.
John R. Black, W J Black, J G Cannon
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Antigenic diversity among and within strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis has complicated studies of the pathogenesis of these strains and obstructed vaccine development.
John R. Black, W J Black, J G Cannon
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Fulminant meningococcal infections in a family with inherited deficiency of properdin.
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1983Three males in a large kindred died of meningococcal infections. In the index patient, properdin (P) was not detectable in serum. Two healthy males with a selective P deficiency were found in the family. There was no general susceptibility to infections,
J. Braconier +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1992
In a retrospective study of invasive meningococcal infections in Greater Gothenburg, Sweden, 213 cases of culture-verified meningitis or septicaemia were identified during the 15-year period 1975-1989. The annual incidence was 2.0/100,000.
Stefan Berg +3 more
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In a retrospective study of invasive meningococcal infections in Greater Gothenburg, Sweden, 213 cases of culture-verified meningitis or septicaemia were identified during the 15-year period 1975-1989. The annual incidence was 2.0/100,000.
Stefan Berg +3 more
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Acta Medica Scandinavica, 2009
Serial assessments of some blood coagulation factors, antithrombin III (AT III), and complement were made in 18 patients with meningococcal (mgc) infection. All patients displayed laboratory evidence of activation of the blood clotting system.
B. Laursen +4 more
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Serial assessments of some blood coagulation factors, antithrombin III (AT III), and complement were made in 18 patients with meningococcal (mgc) infection. All patients displayed laboratory evidence of activation of the blood clotting system.
B. Laursen +4 more
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