PLoS ONE, 2015 BackgroundTo facilitate the interpretation of meningococcal meningitis epidemiology in the "African meningitis belt", we aimed at obtaining serogroup-specific pooled estimates of incidence, carriage and case-carrier ratios for meningococcal meningitis in
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Genetic Variation in Neisseria meningitidis Does Not Influence Disease Severity in Meningococcal Meningitis [PDF]
Frontiers in Medicine, 2020 Neisseria meningitidis causes sepsis and meningitis in humans. It has been suggested that pathogen genetic variation determines variance in disease severity. Here we report results of a genome-wide association study of 486 N.
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Meningococcal purpura fulminans and severe myocarditis with clinical meningitis but no meningeal inflammation: a case report [PDF]
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background During fulminant meningococcal septicaemia, meningococci are often observed in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) although the patients have frequently no meningeal symptoms.
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Meningococcal meningitis: clinical and laboratorial characteristics, fatality rate and variables associated with in-hospital mortality [PDF]
Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2016 Meningococcal meningitis is a public health problem. The aim of this study was to describe the clinical characteristics of patients with meningococcal meningitis, and to identify associated factors with mortality.
Vanessa L. Strelow +5 more
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Pediatric bacterial meningitis and meningococcal disease profile in a Brazilian General Hospital
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020 Objective: To evaluate the clinical and epidemiological profile of bacterial meningitis and meningococcal disease in pediatric patients admitted to a Brazilian Secondary Public Hospital.
Bruna P. Blanco +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.
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Systemic manifestations in the course of meningococcal disease [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski Pregled, 2009 Background/Aim. Meningococcal disease most often manifests itself as meningitis or sepsis. During the course of these diseases, other clinical events sometimes develop such as pneumonia, pericarditis, arthritis, and they are referred to as extrameningeal
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The burden of meningococcal meningitis in the African Meningitis Belt, from 2009 to 2014: a trend analysis. [PDF]
Pan Afr Med J, 2021 Jaca A +3 more
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Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Patient with Meningococcal Meningitis [PDF]
Oman Medical Journal, 2018 Meningococcal meningitis has a wide range of neurological complications. However, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) following infection with Neisseria meningitidis is uncommon.
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Primary immunization of meningococcal meningitis vaccine among children in Hangzhou, China, 2008-2017. [PDF]
Hum Vaccin Immunother, 2021 Che X +8 more
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