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The Diagnosis of Meningococcal Meningitis

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1987
To the Editor.— That the presence of petechiae is a useful predictor of meningococcal meningitis, 1 differentiating it from other types of purulent meningitis, validates one of the earliest names of the disease, "petechial fever." Petechiae associated with meningococcal meningitis occur during the meningococcemic stage and are caused by the plugging ...
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Epidemiology of meningococcal meningitis in Belgium

Journal of Infection, 1981
The results of a sero-epidemiological study of an outbreak of meningococcal disease in Belgium are reported. This epidemic, which commenced in 1969, reached its peak incidence (five cases per 100 000 of the population) in 1971 and 1972. Thereafter the incidence of disease decreased and, currently, has fallen to normal inter-epidemic proportions (one ...
S. De Maeyer, G. Reginster, J.-M. Seba
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Meningococcal meningitis.

East African medical journal, 1996
Meningococcal meningitis has been recognised as serious problem for almost 200 years. In Africa the disease occurs in epidemics periodically during the hot and dry weather in the "meningitis belt" and in east Africa, which is outside this belt the epidemics tend to occur during the cold and dry months. The infection is mainly transmitted from person to
Bhatt, KM,, Bhatt, SM,, Mirza, NB
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[Analysis of epidemic characteristics for meningococcal meningitis in China during 2015-2017].

Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine], 2019
J. Li, D. Wu, Z. Yin, Y. X. Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A case of a FilmArray® ME false negative in meningococcal meningitis.

Journal of Infection, 2019
Patricia González-Donapetry, J. García-Rodríguez, Emilio Cendejas-Bueno   +2 more
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Long-term health and socioeconomic consequences of childhood and adolescent onset of meningococcal meningitis

European Journal of Pediatrics, 2018
L. Pickering, P. Jennum, R. Ibsen, J. Kjellberg   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mathematical Modelling of the Dynamics of Meningococcal Meningitis in Africa

, 2016
K. Blyuss
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Group B Streptococcal Neonatal Meningitis

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 2022
Elva Bonifácio Andrade
exaly  

Meningococcal meningitis

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 1994
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A first case of meningitis/encephalitis associated with SARS-Coronavirus-2

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
Takeshi Moriguchi, Junko Goto, Atsuhito Nakao   +2 more
exaly