COVID-19 and lessons learned from the pandemic wave of meningococcal meningitis (1985-1990). [PDF]
Sudan J Paediatr, 2020 Swar MO.
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An overview of the meningococcal disease and impact of the quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine [PDF]
Novel Research in Microbiology Journal, 2021 Meningitis is an inflammation of the meninges, which are the three membranes that cover the brain and the spinal cord; which occurs when the fluid surrounding the meninges becomes infected.
Asmaa Alrobai +2 more
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Neisseria Meningitidis Causing Multiple Cerebral Abscesses in Early Neonatal Period: Case Report and Review of Literature [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2017 Neisseria meningitidis is a rare cause of meningitis and septicemia in neonates. There are few published case reports of neonatal meningococcal meningitis complicated by subdural empyema, cerebral abscess and hydrocephalus.
LAXMAN BASANI, ROJA AEPALA
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Meningococcal vaccines in China
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021 Meningococcal meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis is a reportable infectious disease in China, due to the high incidence of meningitis in the era before the availability of vaccines.
Yinghua Xu +5 more
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Neisseria meningitidis pneumonia with bacteremia without meningitis: An atypical presentation
IDCases, 2020 Neisseria meningitidis remains the most important cause of bacterial meningitis worldwide. The second most common and potentially severe end-organ manifestation of invasive meningococcal disease is meningococcal pneumonia.
Fatma Mohamed Mahmoud, Thana Harhara
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Revealing the molecular signatures of host-pathogen interactions. [PDF]
, 2011 Advances in sequencing technology and genome-wide association studies are now revealing the complex interactions between hosts and pathogen through genomic variation signatures, which arise from evolutionary co ...
C Herdtweck +53 more
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mSphere, 2018 Neisseria meningitidis is a common cause of bacterial meningitis in children and young adults worldwide. The 4CMenB vaccine (Bexsero), developed to combat meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) disease, contains subcapsular antigens that may induce immunity ...
Robert M. Mulhall +12 more
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Impact of a mass vaccination campaign against a meningitis epidemic in a refugee camp. [PDF]
, 1996 Serogroup A meningococcus epidemics occurred in refugee populations in Zaire in August 1994. The paper analyses the public health impact of a mass vaccination campaign implemented in a large refugee camp.
Blok, L +5 more
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The association between life events, social support, and antibody status following thymus-dependent and thymus-independent vaccinations in healthy young adults [PDF]
, 2005 This study determined whether stressful life events and social support were related to antibody status following both thymus-dependent and thymus-independent vaccinations. Life events in the previous year and customary social support were measured in 57
Burns, Victoria E. +4 more
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Bacterial outer membrane vesicles and vaccine applications [PDF]
, 2014 Vaccines based on outer membrane vesicles (OMV) were developed more than 20 years ago against Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B. These nano-sized structures exhibit remarkable potential for immunomodulation of immune responses and delivery of “self ...
Acevedo, Reinaldo +10 more
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