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Enhanced Surveillance for Meningococcal Disease-United States, 2015-2019. [PDF]

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Rubis AB   +9 more
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Outbreak of Neisseria meningitidis Conjunctivitis in Military Trainees - Texas, February-May 2025.

open access: yesMMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Ching SJ   +10 more
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Meningococcal Meningitis

Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 2010
Meningococcal meningitis (MM) is the most common presentation of meningococcal disease and an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. When MM is associated with shock, early recognition and treatment of shock is essential. No investigation should delay starting antibiotics once the diagnosis is suspected. Corticosteroids can be started at
Ricardo Garcia Branco, Robert C. Tasker
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Intrafamilial meningococcal meningitis

European Journal of Pediatrics, 1980
Two couples of sibs presented with meningococcal meningitis. In both families, immediate preventive measures were not taken due to a negative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) smear in the first case from Family A, and a negative CSF smear and culture in the first case from Family B. All the children were treated successfully.
D. Merzbach, Y. Naveh
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An overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia

Emergency Nurse, 2009
This article provides an overview of meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia, which can have devastating effects. Nurses working in acute and primary care need to be able to recognise the causes and symptoms of these conditions, and have up-to-date knowledge of treatment, prevention and potential after-effects.
Claire Donovan, Jane Blewitt
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NEONATAL MENINGOCOCCAL MENINGITIS

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1977
To the Editor.— Jones et al reported a case of fatal Neisseria meningitidis meningitis in a 2-week-old female infant associated with colonization of the mother's cervix (at 36 weeks' gestation) and throat (postpartum) with the same organism (236:2652, 1976).
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SUIPESTIFER SEPTICEMIA AND MENINGITIS COMPLICATING MENINGOCOCCIC SEPTICEMIA AND MENINGOCOCCIC MENINGITIS

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1937
Since 1931 there have been at the Harriet Lane Home twenty-eight cases of infection with the suipestifer bacillus. Almost all the patients were Negro children. Only three deaths occurred. The source of the infection is yet unknown, and it is interesting that several of the patients were nursing infants.
M. M. Ravitch, J. A. Washington
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