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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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Investigating the aetiology of and evaluating the impact of the Men C vaccination programme on probable meningococcal disease in England and Wales. [PDF]
, 2006 The aims were to (1) investigate the aetiology of probable meningococcal disease, where a clinical diagnosis is made in the absence of laboratory data, and (2) evaluate the impact of the Men C vaccination programme in England and Wales.
Davison, KL +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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Risk of transmitting meningococcal infection by transient contact on aircraft and other transport. [PDF]
, 2009 Contact tracing of persons with meningococcal disease who have travelled on aeroplane or other multi-passenger transport is not consistent between countries.
Rachael, T. +14 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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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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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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Meningococcal and pneumococcal meningitis in Northern Ghana [PDF]
, 2008 Despite improvements in technology, treatments and understanding of how bacterial meningitis develops, the disease remains a potentially life-threatening emergency capable of causing significant morbidity and mortality. N. meningitidis, S.
Forgor, Abdulai Adams
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